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...found, for example, that nearly 80% of last year's tax reductions went to families ("households," in Census Bureau terms) earning between $20,000 and $80,000 annually. Yet this income level is achieved by only half of the families in the U.S. By contrast, roughly the same number of families have incomes under $20,000, and they got a mere 7% of the tax breaks. That is less than half the share of tax cuts enjoyed last year by the 2% of all families with incomes of $80,000 or more. Main reason: the top tax rate...
...analytical engine was hopelessly complicated for its time and was never completed. But 117 years later, punched cards that were not to be folded, spindled or mutilated became the heart of software technology. In 1951 the U.S. Census Bureau used punched cards for UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer...
...fundamental stumbling block at the Lausanne conference was, as always, the division of political spoils in Lebanon. The country's governmental system is based on the last census, which was taken in 1932, when the Christians still formed a majority. All sides generally agree that the Muslims today constitute about 60% of the country's population of more than 3.5 million, and that the Shi'ite Muslims are the largest single community, with about 40%. Thus the Christians want to hold on to the power they have, and the Muslim and Druze opposition groups want to modify...
...Wattenberg, another of Johnson's young brain-trusters, has a book coming out titled The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong. Using census data, polls and economic research, Wattenberg concludes that any way you measure values and quality of life, America comes out a "pretty strong and healthy society." He believes that programs like those L.B.J. started have done wonderfully well but that Washington, which needs despair to feel useful, refuses to see the successes clearly. "Back in the 1970s we went through a period of 'the carcinogen of the month,' from Love Canal...
Rubin specializes in statistical applications, and is currently analyzing "missing values in census public-use files...