Word: censuses
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...typical college-educated woman working full-time earns $44,200 a year compared to $61,800 for college-educated male workers, according to data from the 2000 Census, posted by the American Association of University Women on their website...
...Caudill says. "We're seeing a lot of elderly people dealing drugs," he says. "A lot of people are retired or on disability, and they think, Well, if Paw-paw can sell his pills, that's $2,400. And if Maw-maw can sell hers, that's $4,800." Census Bureau data support Caudill's notion: 12,481 of the county's 44,362 residents claim some sort of disability. If coal miners gave OxyContin its start in southwestern Virginia, injured steelworkers were among the first to use it in eastern Ohio, where its illicit use remains a serious problem...
...part of a tribe or if they can prove themselves to be at least one-quarter Native American. Proving that you are of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, for instance, can be as easy as tracing your family tree back to a distant relative on an obscure tribal census taken in 1906. Other Cherokee Nations require a blood quantum—the proportion of tribal blood inherited from parents—of 1/32, while still other tribes demand up to one-half...
...seeking to follow the Constitution’s vague declaration that “Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States…according to their numbers,” states have traditionally redrawn congressional district lines every decade to account for population shifts evident in the Federal Census. The only requirements imposed by the courts are that each district must be contiguous and composed of approximately the same number of residents. The vast majority of state legislatures have given themselves the authority to preside over this process...
Without the Supreme Court’s intervention, the onus is now upon state governments to reform the redistricting system. Some have already taken steps to overhaul their redistricting processes. Independent commissions have drawn the lines in Iowa since the 1990 census and in Arizona since the 2000 census. California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has made redistricting one of his top legislative priorities, and the Florida Democratic Party has also made plans to introduce redistricting efforts. While these recent efforts are laudable, many of them are still overtly political. California Republicans, such as Schwarzenegger, support redistricting in large part because...