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...pangs of truth. My Petition for More Space will never, as Nixon would say, play in Peoria. The United States is approaching zero population growth (ZPG), that is, when families average two children per couple, just enough to replace the parents when they die. The Bureau of the Census says the average now is under three and decreasing. Even if a cancer cure is found, or life expectancy extended, the United States with ZPG will never have the overpopulation Hersey dramatizes. It isn't New Haven, but New Delhi, that has to worry about a crowded world. In places like...
...federal government allocates aid to the city in inverse proportion to Census Bureau per capita income estimates for Cambridge, which Sullivan said are too high...
...most members, two-thirds of whom have had no prior church membership, come because of the wide-ranging community-service programs. When studies showed a high illiteracy rate in Orange County, the church started a reading class. Schuller began a separate ministry to singles after census reports established that they make up two-fifths of the region's population. A 24-hour-telephone crisis service handles 20,000 calls a year-a number of them from potential suicides. The budget for all church and TV operations is $4.8 million a year; Schuller...
...blue-collar work is declining in magnitude and importance, and service and technical-professional work is replacing it. Levison shows how shoe-shine workers, street sweepers, janitors, mailmen, milkmen, cleaning women, typists, and department store clerks are all placed in the "clerical and sales" or "service" categories of the census, and when both occupational and standard of living factors are taken into account, "working class people" across for all least 60 per cent of all those employed--a very far cry from an economy oriented around a "technostructure" or a "post-industrial" society...
...federal Bureau of the Census last month named Martin S. Feldstein '61, professor of Economics, to the five-member Census Advisory Committee on Population Statistics. The committee advises the census bureau and helps it gather and analyze population data...