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These bodies will redraw congressional districts after the 1990 census, and Republican-controlled states could draw boundaries that favor the GOP. Since the current districts are widely thought to be gerrymandered in favor of Democrats, such a shift could give the Republicans a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives for the first time since the 1950s...
...years since the first national census was taken, the population of the U.S. has grown from about 4 million in 1790 to nearly 247 million today. Last week the U.S. Census Bureau predicted the eventual end of that era of uninterrupted increase. In 50 years, the bureau forecast, America's population could peak at 302 million and then begin a slow decline before stabilizing at 292 million...
Hispanics, it seems, have decided that this vague term does not adequately describe all of those it attempts to describe. And Asian-Americans have successfully lobbied to delineate Asian groups in the 1990 census, adding Samoans and Guamanians to the list...
...little comfort to the truly destitute, but the number of poor Americans dropped by several million in one day last week. By broadening the definition of income to include benefits from Medicare and Medicaid, rent subsidies and food stamps, the U.S. Census Bureau calculated that 27.6 million Americans, 11.6% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 1986. Previous computations placed the number of impoverished at 32.4 million. The study found Social Security more effective than the tax system and need-based welfare programs in lifting Americans out of poverty. This will doubtless strengthen Social Security's resistance...
Each one of the Census Block Groups is placed into one of 40 categories, each indicating a different socio-economic status. The categories have names like "Estates and Limousines" (at the top end of the scale) and "Hardscrabble" (at the bottom...