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...years later, Phillips discovered a way to make a quieter and immeasurably greater impact on politics. He and his brother Dean founded a company committed to an analogous task: unearthing and assembling hidden but public information--voter rolls, driver's licenses, census data--for use by activists and politicians. Information and connectivity fuel democracy, Phillips reasoned, so the more that people have of each, the easier participation becomes...
...idea. In fact, his campaign says Bush's top economic adviser supported a 50¢ gas tax as recently as 1999. Assuming you still accept the Bush campaign's contention that Kerry is an unreconstructed gas taxer, what about the $657 figure? Given the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Energy Department, it's a little high. There are about 109 million households consuming a total of 382 million gal. The "correct" charge per family would work out to about...
...explain Bill and Roger Clinton? Dalton Conley, a sociology professor at New York University and the author of The Pecking Order: Which Siblings Succeed and Why (Pantheon) studied Census data and 175 siblings for answers. Conley points not to birth order but to family size and economic influences. "Inequality," he says, "begins at home." TIME spoke with Conley...
...Census data reveal an uptick in stay-at-home moms who hold graduate or professional degrees--the very women who seemed destined to blast through the glass ceiling. Now 22% of them are home with their kids. A study by Catalyst found that 1 in 3 women with M.B.A.s are not working full-time (it's 1 in 20 for their male peers). Economist and author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, who teaches at Columbia University, says she sees a brain drain throughout the top 10% of the female labor force (those earning more than $55,000). "What we have discovered...
Talking of "one group of people called Maori and another called non-Maori" helps neither side, argues Brash. In any case, there's no clear dividing line. Of those who called themselves Maori in the last census, almost half ticked a "non-Maori" identity box as well. Half of Maori children have a non-Maori parent. Maori in need, Brash says, would be better helped as Kiwis than as members of a racial group. "The simple fact of being Maori doesn't necessarily mean people need assistance," whether it's financial aid or lower university entrance marks. In Tauranga, fireman...