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Native English speakers are, in fact, fast becoming a minority in the marketplace. In the U.S. alone, 18% of the population speaks a language other than English at home, according to the 2000 Census. In California, the world's sixth largest economy, the figure is nearly 40%. And on the Internet, it's a Tower of Babel. Only 48% of the world's Web users are native English speakers, down from 77% in 1997. By the end of 2003, the figure will drop to 32%, according to the Aberdeen Group, a tech-research company in Boston...
When the U.S. Census took its once-a-decade snapshot of the American people last year, Gary and Sarah Weiss, who spends weekdays with her dad in Calabasas, Calif., and weekends with her mom in nearby Los Angeles, joined one of the fastest-growing categories in the statistical kaleidoscope: households headed by unmarried men with children. Nationwide, the Census counted 2.2 million of them, a 62% increase over 1990 and a 171% increase in the past two decades. Some are divorced fathers with sole or joint custody. Some are widowers or single men with adopted children. And as many...
Challenged voters are virtually always people who are marked as inactive voters because they did not respond to the most recent census, and who could not produce identification at the polls. Voters who did respond to the census do not have to produce identification, but are required to give their name and address...
...most important thing was finding all those people, because that meant it was real,” Gates said. When he found one of the character’s names in a census, Gates said he was “so excited. I had tears in my eyes...
Every 10 years, with the release of Census data, redistricting occurs—and redistricting controversies arise...