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With 150 million Americans living in cities of 50,000 or more, the U.S. is still very much an urban nation. But the Census Bureau finds that the majority of the population has shifted toward the South and West for sun and casual living, and also for a private corner of the space that remains. All over the country, demographers have noted, the urge is to go small-out of central cities to suburbs, out of suburbs to smaller towns...
...salaries of the Vice President and the Speaker of the House from $65,600 to $80,000, the majority and minority leaders in both houses of Congress from $52,000 to $65,000. The lowest executive-level jobs, including the Commissioner of Education and the director of the Census Bureau, would receive boosts from...
Although the report indicates that the University expects improvement by 1978, it also warns that indices charting the availability of women and minority candidates for employment are based on 1970 census information. "Since 1970 increasing proportions of women and minority group persons have prepared for professional and managerial careers so that 1970 census information may not now adequately reflect present ratios of availability," the report states...
...analyzing slave registers, marriage records during Reconstruction and later census data, Gutman found that the two-parent household and long-lasting marriages have been typical among blacks for most of their American experience. In the slave quarters, marital fidelity was highly regarded and defended, but premarital sex was tolerated, and no stigma was attached to illegitimacy. Except when marriages were broken by the sale of one spouse, the clear tendency was for stable, long-lasting slave marriages. In some cases, marriages even survived successful escapes by one spouse. Gutman quotes a Natchez, Miss., slave overseer who said that slaves...
After he found one of his ancestors listed in an 1870 census later that day, he said it "just absolutely grabbed me." He explained, "I'm obviously obsessed. You must be obsessed to write this kind of book...