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During the five-year period between 1970 and 1975 the number of women enrolled in college full-time and part-time increased by 45 per cent while the number of men rose by only 21 per cent, Rosalind Bruno, a statistician with the education branch of the Census Bureau said Monday...
Full-time enrollment in the nation's colleges and universities last year was about two per cent higher than in the previous year, reversing a six-year trend, according to a recently released U.S. Census Bureau advance report...
...exaggerate the citification of this country," says Irving Kristol, the New York University urban expert. "We do have an urbanized culture, but we are not a city people." Those fellows running for the White House are more a profile of America than we commonly recognize. The Census Bureau says that 80% of our population live in communities of less than 500,000 people, a city size not all that...
...might come as a surprise to many to learn that according to 1974 census bureau reports, total government expenditures in Alabama since Wallace took office in 1962 have risen 356.9 per cent, over twice as much as the federal budget increase. In those same years the state debt rose by over 200 per cent, almost twice the national average...
...Americans are growing more conservative, that cannot be blamed on just one region. The political views of Americans depend far more on their occupations and on their racial and ethnic backgrounds than on where they live. Political Analyst Scammon, former director of the Census Bureau, observes: "If a plumber decides to move from East Orange, N.J., to Galveston, Texas, he is likely to continue voting the way he has been voting, assuming he continues to work as a plumber in Galveston." The newcomers tend to bring their political baggage with them...