Word: censuses
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...titled "termination." The Federal Government severed its legal obligations to some 50 tribes and groups, and relocated thousands of people from their reservations into nearby cities. Tribal protests in the '60s and '70s forced the government to change its policy, and many Indians reclaimed their roots. By the 1990 census, a record 1.9 million people were self- identified Native Americans...
...Census Bureau released a report showing that the number of Americans living under the poverty line last year -- defined as an income of $14,763 for a family of four -- climbed to more than 39 million, or 15% of the nation's population. Worse, median income continued to decline, while the inequality between high- and low-income families increased. Labor Secretary Robert Reich openly showed concern that the U.S. was in danger of becoming a "two-tiered society." There was a smidgen of good news at week's end: new figures showed an unemployment rate of 5.9% -- the lowest...
...tight fiscal environment, a President has few opportunities to stimulate the economy. Creating export-related jobs, which pay 17% more than the average U.S. job, is one way to accomplish this, and the President was reminded last week of how urgently he needs to do it. The Census Bureau reported that median household income fell last year $312, or 1%, while the number of Americans living in poverty -- below $14,763 a year for a family of four -- grew 1.3 million and now accounts for 15% of the population. This news came as a surprise to those economists who counted...
Despite the economic recovery, the number of Americans living below the poverty line last year climbed to its highest level since 1961, according to a study by the Census Bureau. There were 39.3 million people living in poverty in the U.S. -- 1.3 million more than the year before. It's part of a continuing trend toward increasing income inequality in the U.S., Census officials said. Furthermore, children constitute 40 percent of the poor (even though they are just a quarter of the total population). The study also found that one in three African Americans lives in poverty -- the highest rate...
...gift is for description: he takes you into one fully researched scene after another -- gill-netters at work, an autopsy, digging for geoduck clams. With equal precision, Guterson traces the shadow lives of Japanese in the Northwest at a time when Americans of Japanese descent were referred to by Census takers as "Jap Number 1 ... laughing Jap, dwarf...