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Ackert says the CCCC aims to prevent an undercount in Cambridge. She says she believes the 1990 census missed about 4,000 to 5,000 Cambridge residents--an amount symptomatic of a major undercount in 1990, that was a problem across the nation...
...Census Bureau had suggested a way to avoid this undercount, using statistical techniques to determine a more accurate estimate of the total population. Unfortunately, these techniques (known as "statistical sampling") were banned last year by a GOP Congress concerned that the minorities and inner-city voters who comprise a disproportionate number of the undercounted would elect Democrats and that more accurate numbers would threaten Republican seats. (The same Congress later attempted to include the census as an "emergency" appropriation, presumably because no one could have predicted that the year 2000 would come exactly ten years after 1990.) The Supreme Court...
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...