Word: undercount
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that the 1990 census, despite an admitted undercount by the Census Bureau, should not be changed. More than two dozen major cities and counties -- including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta -- had challenged the count, charging that a significant underrepresentation of minorities had cost the cities hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Officials in Wisconsin, which stood to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to California if the census had been revised, were relieved by the ruling. Money may have been the motivation for the suit...
...term, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to add two politically sensitive appeals to a docket that already includes cases on gay rights and racial gerrymandering. The Justices said they would review a Bush Administration decision not to re-adjust the 1990 Census to compensate for an apparent undercount of minorities in large cities; the Justices also announced they would review the sentences imposed upon Los Angeles police officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell in the Rodney King case. The court's most intriguing question: When will Chief Justice William Rehnquist, 71, who underwent back surgery on Wednesday, return...
...undercount cost New York City an estimated $675 million in lost federal aid over the next 10 years, and "the 1990 undercount could cost us up to $1 billion," Dinkins said...