Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Census, Americans will, for the first time, be able to define themselves as "mixed-race...
After four years of congressional hearings, Census advisory committee meetings and public comments, the federal government decided in 1997 to allow people to check as many racial categories as they want on the 2000 Census...
...change was made in response to pressure from the growing number of people in the U.S. who identify themselves as coming from more than one racial background--these people wanted to do more than check off "other" on the Census form...
Appiah, whose mother is white and British and whose father is Ghanaian, questions the rationale behind the Census question...
...they manage is important for the whole country. Small businesses (those with fewer than 500 employees) make up roughly 90% of all U.S. businesses and employ 55 million Americans. According to the Bureau of the Census, 99.9% of enterprises that are born and buried each year are small firms. And the challenges to a long life expectancy are growing. While the gross domestic product of the U.S. was up 3.8% in 1997, the U.S. Small Business Administration reports that business failures increased 15.9% that year, to 83,384--the highest level since...