Word: censuses
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...Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways good and bad, the Medians' life is far different from the previous generation's. To gain some perspective, one must look back to 1970 to see how their parents lived when they were about the same...
Whatever role he finally plays--spoiler or kingmaker or king--Buchanan has already remodeled the tone and the substance of the G.O.P. race. Despite Census Bureau figures and polls that show flat wages are a central concern of most Americans, Buchanan is the only G.O.P. candidate to address the issue directly and with gusto. The left-wing Nation magazine calls Buchanan "the closest thing to a genuine populist in the 1996 race." The others seem to have found no way to talk about income inequality without offending their affluent base of supporters and campaign contributors. While Buchanan strikes a populist...
...didn't take a census. I just looked, and they weren't there. --Donald Hudson Pfarrer '56 Cambridge
...official start of its new term, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to add two politically sensitive appeals to a docket that already includes cases on gay rights and racial gerrymandering. The Justices said they would review a Bush Administration decision not to re-adjust the 1990 Census to compensate for an apparent undercount of minorities in large cities; the Justices also announced they would review the sentences imposed upon Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell in the Rodney King case. The court's most intriguing question: When will Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 71, who underwent back surgery...
Between 1969 and 1969 and 1973, the number of Blacks in Congress increased from 10 to 17 after the creation of majority-Black districts following the 1970 census. In the first election following redistricting as a result of the 1980 census, the number of Black representatives in Congress increased from 17 in 1981 to 20 in 1983. There are now 40 Blacks in Congress--39 in the House, including Eleanor Holmes Norton, a nonvoting member representing the District of Columbia, and one senatior, Carol Moseley-Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. All but one of these Black representatives are Democrats...