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Population growth is a major concern in India. The population increased 21.6% during the 1950s and 24.6% during the '60s. Last week there were signs that the birth rate is leveling off at last. In announcing the results of the 1971 census, the Indian government noted with pride that the national population stood at just under 547 million, or about 14 million lower than the latest official projection. Since 1967, the government reported, family-planning programs have prevented an estimated 1.3 million births per year...
...GREAT bombshell of The State and the Poor, at least to its authors, is the new suburban character of poverty. Working back to 1960 census data, they deny that the central cities are tending to become the exclusive home of the poor. Instead, the poor are rapidly dispersing into the population as a whole, following new job opportunities into the suburbs- seeking more space, better housing, better schools. Poverty here has almost nothing to do with race or central cities. State programs aimed exclusively for blacks will not only alienate the white suburbs but miss 95 per cent...
...personal plans, Lowenstein is very undecided. He doesn't rule out trying for election again from his Long Island district, since the Democratic legislature will have to reapportion it according to census figures. Yet he sees a clear advantage in being able to move around the country and not being tied down to one constituency. Asked whether he agreed with Congressman Donald Riegle (R-Mich.) who has stated that this may be the last chance for the peace movement, Lowenstein mused, "I think we're at a turning point and if we don't take the right turn...
...census sees it, suburbia also includes such unlikely terrain as Cascade County, around Great Falls, Mont. -lightly populated towns in flat, rolling wheat country-and Minnehaha County, surrounding Sioux Falls, S. Dak., mainly onetime farming towns that have increasingly become dormitory communities. Northwestern University Sociologist Raymond Mack says a suburb has only two distinct characteristics: proximity to a big city and specific political boundaries, which result in local control of government. Most of the people whom Harris questioned do not even think of themselves as suburbanites. More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town...
...National Urban Coalition study, "suburban gains in political power through court-ordered redistricting have been steady since 1966." Charles Richard Lehne, a Rutgers political scientist, foresees that the suburbs will pick up 25 seats in the House of Representatives as a result of redistricting based on the 1970 census...