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...Ferrara complains that the statistics I use refer to the whole country, not just California. He is correct; incomes in California are slightly higher (as is the cost of living). But according to the 1970 U.S. Census, the median family income for experienced California farmworkers (including foremen and skilled machine operators) is only $6200 a year, or 52 per cent of the state median. For Chicano farmworkers, the median is $600 lower. According to the Census data, over 20 per cent of all California farmworker families live below the poverty line. For Chicanos, the figure is 28 per cent. Even...
However, Milne says middle-income housing is necessary if only to achieve a proper social "mix and balance." While Petrocelly points to U.S. census figures showing 5000 units of substandard housing in Cambridge, Milne says, "In the past six years, four out of five new housing units built in Cambridge have been subsidized, low income units. In terms of balance, it's time for more middle-income units. You have to look at the total picture of what Cambridge has been doing...
...they pertain to that sector of the market that employs large number of farm laborers. California Department of Food and Agriculture figures show in 1973, farm income in that state was a record $77 billion, up 32 per cent over the 1972 figure of $5.8 billion. Bureau of the Census figures for California published in 1972 indicate that (1) lettuce was an $850 million crop; (2) Salinas lettuce companies control 49 per cent of the California-Arizona lettuce market during peak seasons and (3) 38 Salinas growers control 98 per cent of all lettuce production. This same document reports that...
Wattenberg followed Ihe advice of his friend and sometime collaborator Richard M. Scammon (This U.S.A.; The Real Majority) to "marinate yourself in the data," notably from The Bureau of the Census (of which Scammon was once director). The statistic-laden result is a selective celebration of American achievement, particularly in the past decade, designed to hammer home one basic message: "The dominant rhetoric of our time is a rhetoric of failure, guilt and crisis. The evidence of Ihe data is the evidence of progress, growth and success." Improvement has been so rapid in recent years, says Wattenberg, that...
...data used for the studies will come from census records, and will include business patterns, demographic trends, land use and employment data...