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While Iowa may be a top destination for presidential candidates, the state hasn't had as much luck wooing twentysomethings. In a 2000 Census study of which states attract the most young, single college grads, Iowa ranked 49th, flanked by the Dakotas (with the northern one coming in dead last). Since then, Iowa has spent millions courting businesses and sprucing up communities with arenas, museums and river walks, but Hawkeye Republicans think they have come up with a more effective inducement for young college grads: exempting residents under the age of 30 from state income taxes. An economic plan unveiled...
...Seattle-based Discovery Institute. A nonpartisan but generally conservative think tank, the institute was founded in 1990 by George Gilder, a Nixon speechwriter turned technology evangelist (TIME in 1974 called him the U.S.'s "leading male-chauvinist-pig author"), and his Harvard roommate Bruce Chapman, director of the Census Bureau during the Reagan Administration...
...more than tripled in the past 15 years, to $686 billion, whereas total U.S. buying power has grown at less than half that rate. The Selig Center projects that Hispanic buying power will grow an additional 45%, to $992 billion, by the end of the decade; and the U.S. Census Bureau says the Hispanic population will triple, to 102.5 million, by 2050, when Hispanics will make up nearly 25% of the U.S. population. (The group now has a 14% population share...
...schools, housing and jobs. Now a growing black middle class has moved out of the inner cities and become increasingly detached from the needs of poor blacks. Some 27% of black households earned more than $50,000 a year in 2001, vs. just 12% in 1971, according to U.S. Census data, adjusted for inflation. Despite those gains, about 20% of blacks remained below the poverty line in 2002, up from 18% in 2000. Poor blacks struggle with high incarceration and unemployment rates. An estimated 30% of black men under 40 have been in jail, and according to a study...
Luke would have remembered that slaughter. By documenting Joseph and Mary's compliance with Quirinius' census, he was broadcasting to Roman readers that his fellow Christians were not that kind of messianists, intent on armed revolt. But by framing Christ's birth in the context of that empire-wide tally, he was also suggesting that not just Jewish Palestine but also the entire known world was a possible horizon for Christ's kingdom. It was a delicate line. The adult Jesus would later put it nicely (although Luke may have inherited this particular phrase from the earlier-written Mark): "Render...