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Generation gap, step aside for the "education gap." According to a study based on the census and released last week, the chief reason for conflict between parents and children may well be their sharply changing exposures to learning. The proportion of young adults with high school diplomas has risen from 38% in 1940 to 75% today; those with one or more years of college have increased from 13% to 31%, and college-degree holders have almost tripled, from 6% to 16%. By contrast, the fathers of nearly two-thirds of today's college students did not go beyond high...
...ways that will benefit urban workers. Other liberals have shared that fear, but it has faded greatly as reapportionment engendered by the Supreme Court's one-man, one-vote decision has made legislatures increasingly responsive to urban and suburban needs. Further redistricting on the basis of the 1970 census should create more city and suburban seats in legislatures; that would further weaken the chance of an anti-city bias in the spending of shared federal revenues...
Alarmists claim that saving the U.S. environment requires "zero population growth," but last week the Government's chief demographer countered with a telling argument of his own. The key to pollution, said the Census Bureau's Conrad Taeuber, is "changing standards and habits," not excess people. While the U.S. population rose 13% in the 1960s, for example, national consumption of goods and services jumped 60%, thus loading the landscape with more and more beer cans, junked autos and other garbage. Even if "Z.P.G." were achieved overnight, said Taeuber, the U.S. population would not stabilize until the year...
...walls on parole or probation, but most offenders have at some point encountered the worst correctional evil: county jails and similar local lockups. Such institutions number 4,037?a fact not even known until last week, when the federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration published the first national jail census. Jails usually hold misdemeanants serving sentences of a year or less. More important, they detain defendants awaiting trial: 52% of all people in jails have not yet been convicted of any crime. Of those, four out of five are eligible for bail but cannot raise the cash. Because courts are overloaded...
...date of the execution was not so apparent. But from pottery and other artifacts in the cave, the Israeli scholars were able to make a rough estimate: it could have taken place as early as A.D. 7, when the Judeans rose up against the Romans to protest an official census, or as late as the final decade before the destruction of the Second Temple and the dispersion of the Jews...