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Democratic resolve was bolstered by the fact that the legislation will be immensely popular with working mothers, who spend an average of $3,000 a year per child for care that is often of uncertain quality. Poor women are especially hard pressed. A report by the Census Bureau estimates that mothers with annual incomes of less than $15,000 paid an average of 18% of their income for child care. Declared Texas Democratic Congressman Michael Andrews: "We have standards for prisons, roads and airports. We owe as much to our children...
...reaching this astonishing conclusion, the intrepid investigators used only the most rigorous scientific methods. Choosing Churcher's small village as their test site, they conducted a feline census and found that 78 cats resided in the community's 173 houses, "a slightly higher incidence of cat owning than in Britain as a whole." Owners of 77 of the cats agreed to cooperate. Each was given a supply of consecutively numbered polyethylene bags labeled with his cat's code letter and asked to store whatever was left of any prey his pet brought home...
...factual gold mine called the Statistical Abstract of the United States, a 984-page volume packed full of figures from the mundane to the delightful. First published in 1878, the Abstract each spring sends librarians, market researchers, consultants and journalists scurrying to mine its nuggets. But the Census Bureau publication goes well beyond gee-whiz numbers. Its 1,450 tables and charts offer a fascinating window on the world. With imagination -- and strong eyes for the fine print -- a reader can use the Abstract to make at least a little sense out of the world's never-ending and confusing...
...from economics to political science, who pore over newspapers and scientific treatises to unearth facts. They rely on more than 200 sources and spend a year putting together a single volume, at a bargain-basement cost of $600,000. Naturally, the authors are looking forward to the huge 1990 census, with its treasure trove of information. Updated data from that survey should begin to appear in the 1991 edition. If one obscure fact or another happens to be missing from the volume, which costs $32 hardbound and $26 in paperback, the statisticians can probably find it -- as they did when...
...federal money? As U.S. cities face deeper problems, ranging from grime to gridlock, the rural option could become more important, or at least more appealing. In a recent USA Today poll, 39% of the people surveyed said they would prefer to live in a small town. (According to U.S. Census figures, less than 24% of the population dwells in rural areas, compared with 44% in 1950.) At the very least, says former Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, "it would be unwise for U.S. public policy to force people to leave rural North Carolina and come to Washington...