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...many of us are unprepared to handle the financial burden of parenthood, and critical family services are woefully under-budgeted. Last month, the Bush Administration announced plans to eliminate the American Time Use Survey, a five-year-old project conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Census Bureau has been similarly stymied by budgetary cuts and ideological opposition. Given the Administration's indifference to this kind of statistical research, it's no surprise that the realities of working families have been overlooked these past eight years. If the current presidential candidates expect to attend to the needs...
Researchers compared 1990s and 1980s data from death certificates, the U.S. Census, and a national mortality study and found that while Americans with 12 or more years of education saw increases in life expectancy throughout those decades, their peers with fewer years of schooling did not see an increase in the 1990s...
Menino described several city-wide green programs and initiatives, said that a report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide placed Boston as the third greenest city in the nation...
...Sampson and colleagues recently examined more than 3,000 violent acts committed in Chicago from 1995 to 2003, analyzing police records, census data and a survey of more than 8,000 residents. They discovered what Sampson calls the "Latino Paradox" - first-generation Mexican immigrants were 45% less likely to engage in violence than third-generation Americans. This pattern continued into the second generation, which was 22% less likely to be violent. Similar trends have been seen in New York and Miami, both of which have large immigrant enclaves. "Immigrant communities are often responsible for revitalizing the urban neighborhoods that they...
Boston and Cambridge were placed third and sixth, respectively, in the list of the “50 Greenest Cities in America,” which was based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic Society’s Green Guide...