Word: censuses
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...living rooms and city halls, in churches and synagogues and backyards, on mountaintops and while scuba diving-performed that most optimistic of human rituals and got married. That same year, 1.2 million couples agreed, officially, that their marriages could not be saved. Again in 1993, the Bureau of the Census projected that four out of 10 first marriages would end in divorce. Indeed, the number of divorces began soaring in the mid-60s and has declined only slightly since peaking at a little over 1.2 million in 1981. Thus, despite sporadic cheers about falling divorce rates, couples have not gotten...
...good news: more black Americans are finishing school and moving into good jobs. The bad news: most continue to earn less than whites. Worse, African-American children are nearly three times as likely to be poor as whites. The Census Bureau delivered the verdicts today through a pair of comprehensive studies of the U.S. black population, underscoring long-held concerns that poverty and other economic stumbling blocks continue to disproportionately affect African-Americans. At a press conference, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown focused on one galling finding: that 46 percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with...
...good news: more black Americans are finishing school and moving into good jobs. The bad news: most continue to earn less than whites. Worse, African-American children are nearly three times as likely to be poor as whites. The Census Bureau delivered the verdicts today through a pair of comprehensive studies of the U.S. black population, underscoring long-held concerns that poverty and other economic stumbling blocks continue to disproportionately affect African-Americans. At a press conference, Commerce Secretary Ron Brown focused on one galling finding: that 46 percent of black children lived in poverty in 1993, compared with...
According to 1990 census data, about 35 percent of Riverside's residents listed themselves as Black...
...were living below the poverty line in 1992 -- the highest rate in 25 years, a Columbia University study shows. This despite the fact that parents of 58 percent of them were working at least part-time, according to data from the study, which was based on U.S. Census Bureau statistics. The total number of young children who live below the official poverty line, according to the National Center for Children in Poverty, reached 6 million in 1992, up from 5 million from 1987. The poverty line is defined as an annual income of $14,335 for a family of four...