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Americans with disabilities are doing worse in the job market since legislation designed to help them took effect, according to a study just released by Vocational Econometrics, a research firm in Louisville, Ky. The report, based on recent Census Bureau data, shows that since the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 1992, the number of unemployed disabled has grown. Whereas in 1992, 33% of disabled American men were either employed or actively seeking employment, for example, only 30% were in 1993. The number of employed disabled women also fell slightly. Says David Gibson, president of the firm that conducted...
Nearly one-third of all American children are now in families headed by a single parent, the Census Bureau reported today. Perhaps surprisingly, the highest concentration of single-parent families (37.3 percent) is found in quiet Albany, Ga., just 40 miles from former President Jimmy Carter's hometown of Plains. Overall, the report says, 30 percent of American families and 63 percent of the country's black families are headed by single parents. New York City came in second in the survey, with 35.9 percent of children in single-parent homes...
...threat of homelessness only by moving in with friends or family. The problem has always been tough to quantify and high estimates (by advocates) pegged the number of homeless people at 3 million, although the Columbia study doesn't offer a total homeless population. And the 1990 Census counted only 400,000 homeless Americans. Among those who said they had experienced homelessness, 46 percent said they had been homeless between a month and a year, 33 percent between a week and a month, 13 percent for more than a year and 8 percent for less than a week. The leading...
More African-Americans are graduating from high school and enrolling in college than two decades back, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. About 75 percent of black students completed high school in 1993 up from 67 percent two decades earlier. During the same period, graduation rates remained steady for whites, at 83 percent, and for Latinos at 61 percent. College enrollment rates for blacks climbed from 24 to 33 percent in the same period. For whites, the corresponding jump was from 30 percent to 42 percent.Post your opinion on theSocietybulletin board...
...illogic of any crackdown is that most studies of Latino immigrants show they have a strong work ethic, tight-knit families and a low use of public services. Despite being underpaid and undereducated, few cross the border to collect welfare. A recent study of census data showed that 16.9% of Latino immigrants in Los Angeles County received public assistance in 1990, compared with 41.7% of the non-Latino white population and 64.6% of blacks...