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Twenty Massachusetts cities including Boston and Cambridge filed suit together yesterday to force a recount of the 1980 census, because officials said they fear the population decreases reported threaten federal funding and state representation...
City Manager James L. Sullivan said that the Census Bureau probably missed many residents because a large minority does not speak English. He added he will do everything possible to ensure the city gets an adequate count...
...census results would definitely reduce that number, Tim Reidy, acting director of the Cambridge CETA program, said yesterday. Although CETA provided 600 public service jobs in Cambridge in 1978, only 50 jobs may be available by March, Reidy said...
...census may make many of these neighborhoods, appear wealthier than they are because lower-income families are generally harder to count, Hixson said. "There is a good possibility that one or two neighborhoods may lose their block grants," he added...
Hixson said that the city's transients and illegal immigrants are responsible for many of the unreturned forms. "I wouldn't be surprised if students also had a big impact on the undercount," said Hixson. College students are considered legal residents of Cambridge, even if they file census forms in their hometowns, he added...