Word: censuses
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This week, the U.S. Bureau of Census released a batch of statistics that demographers and social scientists find fascinating. According to the numbers from last year?s population count, about one in five Americans don?t speak English at home, over 2 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, and the number of adults working out of the homes has grown by a third the past ten years...
Redistricting is required to take place every ten years to address population shifts within a state since the last census...
...revolutionary automobile—to a classic urban case study in poverty and neglect. Buildings that once glowed with the promise of industrialization stand dilapidated, their shattered windows mirroring the lost dreams of a city facing racial tension, poverty, crime and unemployment. The results of the 2000 census labeled Detroit the most segregated city in the country...
...biased--why they may believe they were racially profiled during a traffic stop even if their taillight was burned out. First, the police division is only 28% African American, while the city is 43% black. Cincinnati is the 10th most segregated city in the nation, according to the 2000 Census. That segregation is reflected in the police division, many of whose ranking officers graduated from the same Catholic high school on the (mostly white) West Side...
Drawing on examples such as the Los Angeles mayoral race, the U.S. Census interpretation, and Clarence Thomas, Professor Patterson declared that the “Press is racializing an issue” because of “intellectual laziness...