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...Crayola culture is no statistical anomaly. Indeed, it may well be a sign of the times. Non-Hispanic whites still account for 69% of the U.S. population and maintain a predominant share of the nation's fiscal and political power. But by 2059 at the latest, according to U.S. Census figures, there will no longer be a white majority in America. Sacramento, then, provides perhaps the clearest view into the nation's future-a glimpse into what our neighborhoods, schools, churches and police forces may look like just a few decades from...
...company ChevronTexaco agreed to create for Nigerian villagers to end a standoff by local mothers demanding more posts for their sons $1 million is how much more the average U.S. college grad will earn in his lifetime compared to someone who only finishes high school, according to the Census Bureau 3 million teens seriously thought about or attempted suicide in 2000, says a survey by the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, and only 36% received counseling $17.3 billion is the amount of money spent by the Federal Government in its 2001 budget that is completely unaccounted for, according...
...Census Bureau last week reported new figures on income, occupation, immigration and other demographic issues covered by its year 2000 long-form questionnaire. But depending on which newspaper you read, you got a very different picture of how the nation fared in the 1990s...
...YORK TIMES headlined its downbeat Page One story GAINS OF '90S DID NOT LIFT ALL, CENSUS SHOWS. The story cited data indicating that 9.2% of families were deemed poor in 2000, only a slight improvement from 10% in 1989, despite the decade's surging economy. Huge growth in immigration paralleled the economic gains, the paper said, creating "a barbell economy of extreme haves and have-nots...
...WASHINGTON POST called the glass half full in its Page One story, headlined '90S BOOM HAD BROAD IMPACT; 2000 CENSUS CITES INCOME GROWTH AMONG POOR, UPPER MIDDLE CLASS. The piece noted that the proportion of households at the low end, earning less than $15,000 a year, shrank, and the Midwest and South fared especially well in the 1990s, with income rising and poverty declining more than the national average...