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...Maximus has to compete with corporate giants like the $14.5 billion EDS and the $27 billion Lockheed Martin of the defense-and-aerospace industry. Lockheed Martin moved into the welfare field about 10 years ago, and with the cold war's end, its government-services division has become the fastest-growing part of the company. Today it collects fully 11% of all child-support payments taken in nationwide...
With Latinos the fastest-growing group in the nation, they will soon be the largest minority in the United States...
...public school system. Editorials rang out for protection of the First Amendment on the pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. However, reports Doug Cumming in The New Republic, from one quarter a conspicuous silence greeted the school's action: African Americans in the predominantly black suburb of DeKalb (the fastest growing black suburb in America) did not protest the motivational assembly...
...discrimination filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission last year." That figure is for 1985; the 1986 total is 68,822. These numbers reflect discrimination in all EEOC enforcement areas, based not only on race but also on religion, age, national origin and sex. Age discrimination is the fastest-growing area of complaint. CLARENCE THOMAS, Chairman Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Washington...
...easy to look at our peers and see a representation of a "model minority," Asian-Americans are far from a monolithic block. Filipino-Americans, the second largest Asian American population in the U.S. after those of Chinese descent, are under-represented at Harvard. Hmong-Americans, which constitute the fastest growing Asian-American group in the U.S., have a poverty rate of 64.5 percent--greater than any other racial or ethnic minority...