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...live. According to a study by Louisville's Fair Housing Council, Jefferson County's school- desegregation program reduced residential segregation to such an extent that by 1990, though only 17% of the area's residents were black, a mere one-quarter of 1% of the population lived in a census tract without black neighbors...
...wild success of the No. 3 TV show, Friends, is more understandable in light of last week's Census Bureau report, which shows that the average age at which people wed has climbed to a record level--26.7 for men and 24.5 for women. Never-married adults now make up a quarter of the over-18 population. That's 44.2 million people with enough free time to drink double their weight in coffee daily, get precision haircuts that fall rakishly into the eyes without totally obstructing vision, and watch a show on which people do all of the above. When...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Supreme Court unanimously ruled today that the 1990 census, despite an admitted undercount by the Census Bureau, should not be changed. More than two dozen major cities and counties -- including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta -- had challenged the count, charging that a significant underrepresentation of minorities had cost the cities hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Officials in Wisconsin, which stood to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to California if the census had been revised, were relieved by the ruling. Money may have been the motivation for the suit...
...better part of survival, which helps explain another Forbes passion: privacy. It's not only reflected in his refusal to release his tax returns; he was also appalled when USA Today confronted Arthur Ashe in 1992 and broke the story that Ashe had aids. Forbes has called the Census Bureau's detailed questionnaires an "outrage," asked for a law guaranteeing the privacy of medical records in our computer age and fought the idea of a national ID card that proponents say would curb illegal immigration. "The loss of privacy," Forbes argued, "outweighs any gains...
...Penal Laws had driven Irish Catholics to New England by the thousands. As virtual slave laborers, the Irish ended up in black communities. They worked the same jobs, lived in the same neighborhoods, and engendered from the close, often intimate proximity, the first recorded incidence of 'mulattoes' as a census grouping in states like Pennsylvania...