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...researcher at the U.S. Census Bureau, Jean Moorman was besieged with calls from incredulous friends and reporters last February. A Yale-Harvard study had estimated that only 2.6% of college-educated women who were still single at 40 were likely ever to marry. Unmarried 30-year-old college graduates were not much better off: only 20% were likely to wed. Skeptical, Moorman decided to do a study of her own. Her preliminary report, released last week, has cheer for post-20s women who hope to exchange first-time vows...
...rents and proprietary income in the 16 states rose a robust average 4% a year, vs. an anemic 1.4% in the other 34 states. The coastal states, where 42% of all Americans live, attracted 58% of the 8 million new jobs created since 1981. According to this month's Census Bureau figures, the Midwest has replaced the South as the area of the country with the lowest average family incomes...
Ronald Reagan's economic policies have created a period of general prosperity mixed with a worsening of the plight of the underclass. This has helped prompt a national re-examination of race and poverty, with a focus on the black-family crisis. Just last week the Census Bureau announced that more than 54% of all black children are now born to unwed mothers, compared with 18% for the population as a whole...
Networking has become big business in the Federal Government too. In the past, each government agency, from the Census Bureau to the IRS, maintained its own computer listings. Now, more and more, these computers are sharing records. To nab draft dodgers, the Selective Service has fed its machines a restaurant chain's 10-year-old computer list of boys eligible for free birthday sundaes. To ferret out welfare cheats, social service agencies compare their rolls with lists of federal employees. And the Reagan Administration is prodding state governments to begin linking the computers that hold state unemployment insurance records, social...
...their budget on home furnishings and 32% less on clothes than young families in 1973. There is, to be sure, a so-called superclass of high-living yuppies, as young urban professional Baby Boomers were dubbed by Syndicated Columnist Bob Greene in early 1983. But according to the U.S. Census Bureau, only about 4.5 million Americans between the ages of 25 and 40 make more than $35,000 a year. More than six times as many--some 30 million Baby Boomers--make less than $15,000 a year. "I see a lot of people using their credit cards and getting...