Word: undercount
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...symptoms can be confused not only with those of scarlet fever but also with those of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments. While the illness is still considered rare, Bell says: "There's no question that 650 cases is an undercount...
...venture deep into the crowded, big-city neighborhoods in which a significant portion of the minority population lives. According to Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's black mayor, his city has been "cheated out of $11.7 million in federal aid and almost 6,000 jobs" because of the 1970 undercount. Congressional experts estimate that each person overlooked by the census could cost a state as much as $200 in funds from Washington...
...minority leaders and big-city mayors fear that this will not be enough to avoid a sizable undercount. They complain that the Census Bureau, which has been consulting them, has not followed enough of their advice...
...minority leaders' key demand is that the bureau pledge in advance to adjust its official tally if a planned postcensus sampling reveals an undercount. Barabba balks at making such a promise maintaining that "it is still an open question." One problem is that a detailed adjustment could not be ready by the Jan. 1, 1981, deadline for turning over the tally to the President. Another problem is that totals based partly on a sample could raise legal questions about whether they could be used to reapportion seats for the House of Representatives. But Barabba does not rule...
...through 18 states, districts, and territories that stretched from Maine to Georgia, from the Atlantic to the Mississippi River. Armed with their own quill pens, the 650 census takers of 1790 spent 18 months counting the American people. The total: 3,929,214. President George Washington, however suspected an undercount. In a letter to Gouverneur Morris, then U.S. Commissioner to Great Britain, Washington worried about the "indolence of the mass, and want of activity" by many census takers. Proof of this thesis: Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who was in charge of the tally, had to sign his own name...