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...better off than you were four years ago? The ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE, a liberal Washington think tank, will soon release a detailed analysis of recent census data, and the Democrats can't wait to trumpet the economic findings. For the first time in postwar history, average wages and benefits have declined for four years straight, says the institute. Perhaps worse: wages of college-educated Americans, women and white-collar workers -- whose votes are crucial -- have been declining. Assuming Americans vote their pocketbooks, Democrats stand to gain...
...undergraduate days, Heimert says, "You were interested in what peoples' interests were--not in some demographic census definition of them...
...family values have long been a cornerstone of black identity. In the years before the Civil War, many black slaves risked their lives learning how to read. In 1867, just four years after the Emancipation Proclamation, African Americans founded Morehouse and Howard universities. According to the Bureau of the Census, between Reconstruction and 1910, the literacy rate among Southern blacks climbed from 20% to 70%. "There has always been a strong pressure toward educational achievement," says Mae Kendall, director of elementary education for the Atlanta public schools. Kendall, who grew up in semirural Thomasville, Ga., recalls, "My mother...
Likewise in her condemnation of the marriage study, Faludi is right that there is no man shortage for young women. But according to Barbara Lovenheim, who pored over census data for her book Beating the Marriage Odds, the ratio begins to reverse after 35: between the ages of 40 and 44, there are 75 single men for every 100 unmarried women...
...Changing The minoritypopulation of Cambridge has increased by about 8percent in the past ten years, reflecting nationalimmigration trends. Numbers shown representpercent change in racial population between 1980and 1990* *Neighborhood borders are based onCensus tracks and are not the official boundariesdesignated by the Cambridge Community DevelopmentDepartment. Source: 1990 U.S. Census figures...