Word: censuses
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...explosion of religious-oriented travel? Three factors, says Wright, who is the author of three travel guides for the faithful. The first, he says, is simple demographics: "In the last census, there were 8 million more people identified as Christians than a decade ago." Second, is the broader boom in international travel. According to Wright, 45% more Americans are traveling overseas today than 10 years ago. Third, says Wright, "people of faith increasingly want a personal experience of their faith...
...professional genealogist who traced Gates’ ancestry, Jane E. Ailes, will undertake this new project by comparing the names of the 80,000 soldiers who applied for pensions following the Revolutionary War to census data, which listed individuals as being white, a slave, or a free colored person...
Through the pension and census records, “there [are] some really fascinating stories that these men have to tell,” she said...
Given the scope of the projects, Ailes said she couldn’t estimate how long it would take to look up the census records of the 80,000 men. “This is a long-term project. It’s not something we can do in a couple of months,” she said...
...reasons because of what's happened in the American economy. There has been growth in productivity. But that productivity growth is at the top. There's been very little growth passed along to middle-class or low-income workers. A million people were added to poverty rolls, according to Census Bureau, just in the last year...