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...commission's official voting lists are normally revised annually by a mail census. But federal and state funding cuts during the summer kept officials from following up on unreturned census forms with door-to-door visits, explained Election Commissioner Peter Sturges...
Campaign workers in several different primary races agreed that the census mix-up will probably not significantly affect tomorrow's turnout because of public clarifications by the election commission and because the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination has attracted a great deal of media coverage...
...gravely complicated by Lebanon's crazy-quilt of political and religious factionalism. Under the terms of a national covenant worked out in 1943 when Lebanon became independent from France, the Christians are the dominant political force in Parliament, although the Muslims are now thought to outnumber them (no census has been taken since 1932). Moreover, both the Christians and the Muslims are divided into feuding sects. After the civil war ended in 1976, the Phalangists sought the support of the Israelis, who saw them as a strong and friendly force that could stabilize Lebanon...
...government statistics were measuring the toll the slump has taken. The Labor Department reported last week that one out of every five American workers, or 23.4 million people, were out of work during part of 1981; that is 2 million more than in the previous year. The Census Bureau also noted that 32 million Americans, or 14% of the population, lived below the poverty line in 1981 ($9,287 for a family of four), the highest poverty rate since 1967, when 14.2% of all Americans were officially poor. Both sets of statistics reflect the nation's current 9.5% unemployment...
Poverty is a longstanding social problem that hits American women with particular force. "Female heads of households are the disproportionate group of people in poverty," says Columbia University Economist Eli Ginzberg. "The feminization of poverty" is Sociologist Diana Pearce's blunt phrase for it. A Census Bureau report covering 1980 just goes by the numbers: "About one-half of all families below the poverty level in 1980 were maintained by women with no husband present. The poverty rate for such families was 32.7%, compared with 6.2% for married-couple families, and 11% for families with a male householder, no wife...