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...Mount Vernon, which meets the Bronx on its northern side, the median household income, was $34,850 according to the 1990 U.S. Census. The census also noted that the area is 55.3 percent black and 39.8 percent white...
Cynthia Edwards says Mount Vernon public schools fail to prepare students to compete with those from neighboring communities like Scarsdale, with a median income of $120,825 and a population that is 83.9 percent white, 13.7 percent Asian, and 2.2 percent black, according to the census data...
...Clinton lies about sex, and simply accept it when other politicians look us in the eye and lie to us about substantially much more important matters. Are we to believe it when Republican members of Congress tell us that they don't want statistical sampling included in the 2000 Census because they are concerned with the exact phraseology in the Constitution? Or are they really concerned that accurately counting millions of minorities left out last time around would hurt their chances on election...
...trying. In an effort to get more Democrats counted in time for the 2000 elections, the administration will appeal to the Supreme Court a decision banning statistical sampling, a process that would account for the mostly low-income blacks and Hispanics -- traditionally Democratic voters -- who elude their friendly census-taker each decade...
...linked to the galloping economy. Whereas inner-city kids once were pessimistic about job prospects, those who counsel them say they are now brimming with ambition. Experts also point out that while in 1965 there was a 20-point chasm between black and white high school graduation rates, a Census report last month announced that it had disappeared. "I don't want kids holding me down," says Afrika Harrigan, 17, a would-be journalist. "Why would you do that to yourself...