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...enjoyed the work," says Iva, who has already knocked off $1,000 of her indebtedness at $4.30 an hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going...
...nearly 100 doctors, podiatrists, nurses and muscle therapists. "We see about 20 per cent of the people who run," Dr. Jonathan J. Scarlet, a podiatry coordinator for the marathon, said yesterday. He added, "The number goes up as the temperature rises. We bring podiatry students along to keep a census, but they get so busy fetching water that nobody can keep count...
...survey asked only six questions of each head of household: name, the numbers of free white males 16 and older, free white males under 16, free white females, other free persons, and slaves. Faced with the prospect of war with Britain, Congress decided to add questions to the 1810 census to measure the country's industrial strength. The alien question surfaced in 1820, when the respondent was asked whether he was a "foreigner not naturalized...
...that by 1890 some people had to reply to as many as 470 queries. Were ther any "idiots" in the family? If so, were their heads larger or smaller than average? Wisdom prevailed and those obnoxious questions were dropped in 1900. The biggest uproar came in 1940 when the census asked about income for the first time...
...nation grew, the census marked the changes in American life. For example, the 1920 survey showed that, for the first time, more people were living in urban areas than in the countryside. Despite the shifting population, states were slow to reallocate congressional seats so that each district would have the same average population. The 1960 census dramatically revealed the failing: Georgia's rural Ninth District, for example, had a population of 272,154, while the urban Fifth had 823,680. These figures provided a factual basis for the "one man, one vote" decisions...