Word: labor
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Daniel Patrick Moynihan, director of the Joint Center, spoke for the Conference in a letter to Carl D. Perkins, chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee: "Such substantial undercounting of minority groups raises a new order of question. The census count is the basis on which legislation is apportioned and by which great sums of public funds are allocated. A member of a group significantly underrepresented and concentrated in special neighborhoods might well claim a violation of his Constitutional right to equal representation and protection...
...persons residing within the United States. This enumeration is explicitly and primarily designed to provide the basis for representation in the House of Representatives. In the years since the adoption of the Constitution, the Census enumeration and other statistical programs, such as those conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, have come to be the basis for a host of public activities, and most particularly provide the basis on which public funds are allocated in a whole range of government programs at the national, state, and local level. In some cases funds are allocated on a straight "head count" basis...
...Bureau of the Census and other government statistical agencies have set a superb standard of public accountability in calling attention to this problem themselves. We feel it is incumbent on the Congress to provide the Bureau of the Census, the National Center of Health Statistics, the Bureal of Labor Statistics and such other agencies as are concerned, with the funds necessary to obtain a full enumeration of all groups in the population, and also to gather the usual information on special and economic characteristics that is necessary to implement the laws of the nation...
Barring reports of irregularities such as coercive campaigning, the Labor Relations Board is expected to certify the results of the July 20 election by about August 1. Although Harvard--as a non-profit organization--is not legally bound to recognize the union which is declared the winner, it has said that it would...
...election procedure was described last night by a labor lawyer as very similar to that in municipal elections. Campaigning is allowed. The ballot is secret. A plurality wins...