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...White House could not have been more delighted. A generally vigorous economy, low inflation and a decrease in unemployment helped lift 1.8 million Americans out of poverty last year--or at least out of the category that the Census Bureau defines as poverty, which is annual cash income of less than $10,609 for a family of four. The bureau reported last week that the proportion of needy Americans decreased by nearly a full percentage point, to 14.4%, the first reduction after five years of steady increases. Said Gordon W. Green Jr., assistant chief of the Census Bureau's population...
Remember when unmarried men were called bachelors and unmarried women spinsters? Many of the 50 million "singles" in America are too young to recall. The Census Bureau reports that from 1970 to 1983 the proportion of never married singles ages 20 to 24 increased from 36% to 56% among women and from 55% to 73% among men. During that period, single-person households increased by 8.5 million. According to the Census Bureau, the increasing number of unmarried people in the pivotal 30-to-34 age bracket "suggests that an increasing proportion of persons may never marry...
...were classified below the poverty line; today only 14% are. But in 2025, when there will be some 64 million people over 65, the nation will have fewer than four working- age individuals for every retirement-age person. "This is the lowest ratio ever," says Gordon Green of the Census Bureau, "and has serious implications for the solvency of the Social Security system...
...Mousam never voted, drove a car, paid taxes or performed any of the other everyday tasks that might ordinarily call her to the attention of Boston officialdom. Nevertheless, thanks to a city census taker who spotted her name on the front door of her home, Mousam received a summons last month ordering her to report for jury duty in August. Since Mousam ignored the summons, along with an enclosed form that permits prospective jurors to offer reasons for declining to serve, her housemates, Social Workers David Christian and Lia Graceffa, took charge. Christian checked a box indicating that Mousam could...
...week Mousam, a plump gray-and-white cat of uncertain lineage, received a notice from the office of the Massachusetts jury commissioner excusing her from courtroom duty. Reason: "Language." Amused, Christian soon learned that Mousam and his other cat, Leo A. Longfellow, were listed on the 1984 Boston city census rolls as nurses, ages 29 and 32. Apprised of Mousam's true identity, Jury Commissioner Paul Carr was not embarrassed. Shrugged he: "It's not the first time. We've summoned cats and dogs and buildings and 'Occupant' and 'Vacant.' We accept what...