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...pride of claiming Native American lineage--as almost 2 million Americans did in the 1990 Census--has been joined by a big practical benefit since passage of the Indian Gaming Act in 1988. Today there are 198 tribes with some sort of gaming on their reservations. Some use the resulting income for community development, education and investment. Others simply make big payouts to their members. The Shakopee, a small Minnesota tribe, writes checks for as much as $700,000 to each of its adult members every year. This kind of jackpot has attracted a host of non-Indian investors, willing...
...instance, Driskell says she got the centerpiece of her agenda this year, Harvard Census 2000, from a similar proposal mentioned by Dartmouth College delegates at an Ivy Council conference where she was a delegate...
...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...
Democratic principles require a compensatory accounting for those "missing" from the census, especially since many of them are members of marginalized groups. To settle for an inaccurate enumeration of the population is akin to relegating the uncounted to second-class citizenship. Without an effort to compensate for the difference, inevitable and expected statistical error becomes a concerted effort to ignore minorities and the poor when conducting the business of government...
...Census Bureau and undercounted states have already begun multi-million-dollar public education programs to encourage participation in the census. We wish them success and hope that the count will be as accurate as is possible under the circumstances. We look forward to the day when political factions will no longer attempt to maintain power by fixing the numbers. A sensible census is definitely within our reach...