Word: censuses
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...Census is gearing up for its once-a-decade tally of America's population. And so are thousands of groups with a vested interest in being fully counted - since the Census determines not just seats in the House of Representatives but also how some $400 billion in annual federal funding gets divvied up, the way companies think about where to build factories and stores, and the shape of political and social discourse about issues like race, ethnicity and urban vs. rural America...
...sewage services, as well as constructing special settlers-only roads. The number of settlers has grown fast in the past 15 years, as Israeli troops have pulled out of Arab cities and moved into the countryside, where they protect the Jewish population centers. In 1995, according to Israeli census figures, 138,000 settlers lived in the West Bank and Gaza. Now in the West Bank alone (no settlers remain in Gaza), there are nearly 300,000, mostly nestled together in heavily guarded blocs, living among 2.5 million unwelcoming Arabs. An additional 200,000 Israelis live in East Jerusalem, which Israel...
Bachmann, Representative Michele • anti-census legislation is introduced...
Liberia represents one of the best tests of Africa's capacity for regeneration. A small nation with a population of just 3 to 5 million - the new government has yet to conduct a reliable census - it has a reformist leader, two ports, rich resources and a history of exporting. In the 1950s, rubber powered economic growth of 8%, second only to Japan that decade. Fixing Liberia should still be a relative cinch. "It's everybody's favorite model," says a Western economist in Monrovia. "If it doesn't work here, it doesn't work anywhere...
...note that the opting-out revolution is largely a myth. A study in the American Sociological Review in June 2008 found that fewer than 8% of professional women born since 1956 have left the workforce for a year or more during their prime childbearing age. Most working mothers, the Census Bureau reports, are back in the workforce within a year of having a child; better-educated women and those who can afford to drop out are actually less likely to. Rather than the pull of the playground, 86% of women in one survey cited the push of a hostile...