Word: censuses
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...They're saying they want recognition as a negotiating party, to force the government to meet demands for equal rights for Albanians. They want Albanian recognized as an official language, want a proper census so that they're represented in government proportionate to their actual number. They want greater representation in the police force, want to hear their own language on national TV and so on. They're saying they don't want to redraw borders or create a separate entity, but that they want to be equal partners in Macedonia...
Sources: Newsday, A.P., Bureau of the Census, New York Times, Dateline NBC, USA Today, CNN.com
Iowa grew just 3.3% in the 1990s, compared with 9.6% for the nation as a whole. Part of the state's growth was fueled by the migration of 21,000 immigrants, many of them Hispanic. The 2000 Census figures released last week show that Hispanics, now poised to replace African Americans as the nation's largest minority group, saw their numbers explode in Midwestern states like Wisconsin in the 1990s, while Iowa enjoyed an increase of less than 1% over that time. Vilsack wants to change that by accelerating the arrival of Hispanics and other immigrants...
...million People who identified themselves as Hispanic on the 2000 census, a 57.6% increase from...
...million People who identified themselves as black on the 2000 census, a 16% increase from...