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Playing the numbers game in the 1980 census...
Counting Americans every ten years would seem to be a noncontroversial enterprise, but the 1980 U.S. census has become immersed in politics up to its last decimal point. A growing number of people are worried about the accuracy of the tally because so much-political power as well as the distribution of billions of dollars in federal funds-is riding on the outcome. The nose count will not begin until April, but Census Director Vincent Barabba already predicts that it will be the "toughest and most scrutinized ever. Everyone is going to be watching...
April 1: On Census day, government statisticians discover that the number of undocumented aliens has leaped to over 50 million. Due to rising oil costs, however, 30 million Americans, termed zweibacks, have crossed the border to seek work in Mexican oil fields...
...House bill improves on the present system by requiring every state after Oct. 1, 1981 to provide welfare for two-parent families without income 65 per cent of the Census Bureau's official minimum subsistence level. That amounts to about $4650 a year for a family of four in 1979 dollars. The new rule would raise the payments to about 800,000 families in 13 states, mainly in the South and Southwest. Under present welfare rules, only single-parent families with dependent children receive aid, a system that encourages the break-up of marriages, some experts say. The House bill...
...Commerce Secretary, she won encomiums from colleagues and White House aides. The department has 30,000 employees, a budget of $3.2 billion and a heterogeneous collection of responsibilities ranging from taking the census every ten years to collecting economic statistics every month. Kreps once quipped: "The only difference between Commerce and Noah's ark is that Commerce has only one of everything...