Word: censuses
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...instructions and ballots written in Spanish or other languages, as well as citizenship ceremonies conducted in foreign languages. Averting the need for a major redesign of U.S. currency, an exception was made for the phrase "E Pluribus Unum." The legislation excuses materials from agencies dealing in international relations, trade, census matters and national security. Another provision concedes that government workers should be allowed to speak foreign languages in order to save the lives of citizens during public health or safety emergencies. Although Speaker Gingrich declared that becoming American means learning English, Democrats railed against the bill. "This is mean-spirited...
Lecturer on History Thomas J. Brown says his web site for History 1607: "The Old South" has received national attention for the way it makes vast amounts of census and other data available to students...
...search program at the History 1607 site allows students to select a census year from which they want information. They then enter what statistics they want, for example, the number of slaves in a given county in Virginia in 1840. Armed with this kind of detailed, and often complex, statistical knowledge, students were able to become experts on a given county, matching up the subjective impressions they received from the reading with the quantitative information they gained from the web site, Brown says...
Area Four has the highest unemployment rate in Cambridge, 10.8 percent according to 1990 census data, and one of the lowest median family incomes of about...
Researchers used 1990 Census data and mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics to demonstrate, for the first time, the relationship between income inequality and death from coronary heart disease, cancer and homicide...