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Magnates & Musicians. The newcomers inestimably enriched the U.S., making it the mast incredibly diverse nation on earth. Even today, 34% of the Northeast is composed of "foreign stock," a Census Bureau classification that includes those born outside the U.S. and those who have at least one parent born outside the country. More than 20% of the population of California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and 15 other states are of foreign stock. The immigrants helped to build the great cities and shift the balance of American life away from the farm. Half of the people in New York, Boston and Detroit...
...thanks partly to Mrs. Hicks, Boston's schools remain racially unbalanced. At least 25 schools have enrollments that are less than 20% white. A new state law (TIME, Aug 27) requires schools to correct imbalance or forfeit state funds; Boston has until October to complete a pupil census, and then must submit plans to redress the balance. And U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel has begun an investigation to see if Boston's schools can continue to qualify for $2,000,000 in federal...
...when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
Individual Negro incomes went up 54% from 1950 to 1960, and family incomes soared by 73%. The number of Negroes living in standard housing, compared with census-defined substandard housing, doubled in the same period. Negro-controlled insurance companies have doubled their assets since 1951; Negro commercial banks have increased their assets from $5 million to $53 million since...
...Step. Some of the reasons are already clear. The Government takes a business census only once every five years; Congress keeps federal statisticians too starved for funds to make it more often. In a rapidly changing economy, five years is just too long for exact tracking. Important in the current revision are better statistics supplied by the new input-output study of what various industries sell to each other (TIME, Nov. 20) and fresh concepts of what should be included in the gross national product. The $1.2 billion a year paid in real estate commissions, for example, was reclassified from...