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...product of three years of research by the author, an economist and director of the Economic Policy Council, a Manhattan-based think tank. Hewlett was increasingly struck by the income disparity between European and American women, a plight she illustrates with cold statistics. As of August 1985, Census Bureau figures show that women in the U.S. earn 64 cents for each dollar earned by males, up only 1 cents since 1939. European women, by contrast, have been gaining on men much more rapidly. In Sweden, for example, women now average 81% of male annual earnings, up from...
Abutting heavily black Detroit, the predominantly white suburb of Dearborn has earned an unsavory reputation as one of America's more segregated communities. Conditions have not changed appreciably since the 1980 census showed only 83 blacks among Dearborn's 90,660 residents. The city's lily-white makeup was maintained by Mayor Orville Hubbard, a chest-thumping racist who ruled Dearborn's city hall from 1942 to 1978. Although Hubbard died in 1982, his legacy was hauntingly present last week as civil rights activists expanded a boycott of local stores to protest efforts to bar nonresidents from most of Dearborn...
...years. The ten large metropolitan centers (defined as those with 1 million or more people by the year 2000) whose population will increase the fastest will be in Florida, California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and Utah. Nevertheless, the Snowbelt-to-Sunbelt stampede is slowing. Says Lyle Spatz, of the U.S. Census Bureau: "It's leveling off and even shifting in the Northeast. New England has shifted its economy and attracted people." The future will remain less than cheery around the Great Lakes and in some parts of the Midwest: Cleveland is expected to lead large metropolitan areas with an 8.2% population...
...This is a city of contrasts," said Dr. Emilio Carillo, a local Hispanic leader who spoke about ethnic issues affecting local residents. "Right here in Cambridge we have the richest and the poorest census tracts in Massachusetts...
...blacks, women and the elderly also declined. Despite the gains, some economists suggested that the benefits of the economic recovery were not evenly shared. Claimed Robert Greenstein, director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has been highly critical of the President's policies: "The new Census data show that the gap between rich and poor in the U.S. is now wider than at any time since Census began collecting income-distribution data in 1947." Nor was Greenstein sanguine about the future. "It's a one-year drop," he said. "Unless we get an unusually robust economic growth...