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...status of women?America's numerical majority at 51% of the population???remains today as relentlessly second class as that of any minority. A third of the American work force is female: 42% of the women 16 and older work. Yet there is only one economic indicator in which women consistently lead men, and that is the number living in poverty. In 1968, the median salary for full-time year-round workers was $7,870 for white males, $5,314 for non-white men, $4,580 for white women and $3,487 for nonwhite women. The median wage for full...
Worse, the most crime-prone segment of the population???poor urban youths aged 15 to 24?will increase disproportionately at least until 1975. Sheer demography adds a racial factor: half the nation's blacks are under 21. Though victims of black crime are overwhelmingly black, it is chiefly young black males who commit the most common interracial crime: armed robbery...
...policeman, the telephone repairman already buy Mario Procaccino's brand of politics. They leave the Democratic Party only when it swings too far to the liberal side, and Procaccino has not done that. He also seeks to include behind his average-man barricade another, more elusive segment of the population???typified by the schoolteacher, the junior accountant, the shopkeeper, the middle-income lawyer or engineer who chooses to work for the government...
...Viet Cong supply lines from Communist North Viet Nam. The government has embarked on a crash program to construct some 12,000 "strategic hamlets." fortified villages where the peasants will be guarded against Viet Cong attacks by trained, well-armed militiamen. Already 9,750,000 people?65% of the population???have been settled in the 7,500 hamlets that have been built...
...represent a great many more. Notably, Congressman Crail of the Los Angeles-Hollywood district is the sole voice of 1,250,000 people, so that a vote in Los Angeles is only one-fifth as potent as in the average district. This inequality arises from the inevitable shifts in population???one State increasing rapidly; another either decreasing or increasing slowly. Wise, the Founding Fathers foresaw this, and provided in the Constitution of 1789 that seats in the House should be redivided among the States, each ten years, according to census. But that is precisely what dishonest Congressmen have prevented since...