Word: censuses
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...desire to get organized is a major stimulus for all this closeting. (That and the fact that on average, Americans buy about 75% more clothes now than they did 10 years ago, according to census data.) A 2005 survey by Rubbermaid claims that more women said they wanted to organize their closets than said they wanted to lose weight. Another spur to the industry: celebrity closets. Often the most interesting part of MTV Cribs is a peek into the clothing warehouses of the rich and famous: Mariah Carey's revolving, glass-enclosed shoe cabinet, for example. Other shows--including...
...decent lifestyle in Boston. Living wage advocates are defining “decent” far too generously. According to the Boston Redevelopment Authority, the 2005 median income for a family of four in the Boston metro area is $82,600. This number is slightly higher than the U.S. Census Bureau’s last median income estimate for all of Massachusetts (in 2003), which showed that the state had the second highest median income in the nation. At $20 per hour with a 40-hour workweek and two weeks of vacation, two Harvard janitors would pull...
...point out that abstinence billboards now dot Uganda's capital Kampala where condom posters used to be. Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni, a high-profile member of one of the country's fast-growing evangelical churches, has been spreading a message of abstinence and even advocates a "virginity census," though she's short on details about how to conduct it. President Yoweri Museveni last year attacked the widespread use of condoms in a speech to the U.N. aids Conference in Bangkok. With such powerful people on one side, Were thinks the official policy of a balanced approach is getting...
Over two-thirds of New Orleans’ population was black, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with a third of the general population living under the poverty line...
...economic and demographic bombshell ticking under the pop culture surface that would bring the deepest change. When the 2000 U.S. census made it clear that Hispanics were poised to become the nation's largest minority, Latinos were thrust into the zeitgeist-visible, indelible, inevitable. The news that the buying power of Hispanics is overtaking that of African Americans and is growing faster than non-Hispanics has sparked a scramble by corporations to understand this huge lucrative market in its midst. The new color of money is brown, black, red, yellow and white. The U.S. consumer economy, in other words...