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...Democrat played by Martin Sheen; chief of staff Leo McGarry, played by John Spencer; and a clutch of earnest young staff members--have wrestled with school vouchers, the Pentagon's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays, even the debate over using statistical sampling to improve the Census. "Make the Census interesting, who'd have thought?" says (real) White House spokesman Joe Lockhart. The West Wing has become our national civics lesson...
...troublesome rise. Yet employment figures for the same month make it clear that the U.S. is a long way from running out of workers. Somewhere, somehow, employers found 416,000 people to add to payrolls in March, the most for any month in four years. Even after subtracting temporary Census hiring and adjusting for seasonal quirks, job gains continued the hot--some had thought unsustainable--pace of 1999. And it was not done by putting the officially unemployed back to work. The jobless rate--4.1% in March--has barely moved since September 1999, when...
Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, March Current Population Survey, 1997 to 1999. Calculations by Children's Defense Fund...
...look now, but this could be the year we witness somewhat of a rebirth in American civic involvement. Bucking the current pervasive anti-census sentiment, the nation's minority communities have posted strong returns this spring, helping to reverse a decades-long downward trend in response rates. According to Thursday's New York Times, census officials report that close to 66 percent of Americans have returned their questionnaires - yes, including the much-maligned long form - putting the nation on track to reach a return rate of 67 percent, or two full points over 1990's final count. The remaining, refractory...
...primarily white communities, but they may be well on their way - white localities' response numbers dropped this year, while minorities' rates rose. While the precise impetus for the upswing is unclear, this year's strong returns from Hispanics and blacks can probably be traced in part to the Census Bureau's aggressive, targeted advertising campaigns, as well as to grassroots encouragement to "get out there and be counted" or risk losing government spending. The Times reports that census officials are breathing a sigh of relief as the completed forms pile up; despite concerted and expensive efforts to increase returns, controversy...