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...Census Bureau report showed that between 1982 and 1992 the percentage of never married adult women who have children rose from 15% to 24%. The rate was highest among black women (56%), but it more than doubled among whites (6.7% to 14.6%) and college-educated women...
...draw up districts where minority candidates would have a viable chance of being elected. Resulting jurisdictions with built-in black majorities came to be called "majority- minority" districts. More than a dozen new majority-minority seats were born in the South. Because of the redistricting based on the 1990 census, the number of black and Hispanic representatives in Congress rose from 36 to a politically potent 56 last year...
Cambridge is divided by the Census Bureau into 30 tracts, which the city has grouped into 13 "areas." The top tracts have a per capita income of about $42,000. Many of the banks lend heavily to the city's wealthiest neighborhoods...
...bank received no applications from Area 2 census tract 3531, the city's lowest income area in 1989. Area 7, the Riverside neighborhood which had the second-lowest per capita income in 1989, also submitted no applications...
...Cambridgeport received 247 Cambridge mortgage applications. The only census tract from which the bank did not receive an application was 3524--a Central Square neighborhood with the third lowest income in 1989. Mullins says his 20 mortgage executives operate on 100 percent commission and are therefore driven to seek the maximum number of mortgages possible...