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...every ten, fall into this category. The reason for the rise is twofold. Modern medicine has cut infant mortality rates and increased the average life expectancy from 47 years in 1900 to 71.3 today. Since 1957 the U.S. birth rate has dropped (TIME, Sept. 16), increasing the ratio of elderly to young people. If present population trends continue, those over 65 and those under 15 should each account for 20% of the population by the year...
...short-term indebtedness of U.S. cities. In the past decade, the number of public employees has risen 38%, to 340,000; their salaries and benefits have jumped an average of 10% a year, but people do not feel that the city is getting value for its money. The ratio of police to the rest of the population is higher than in the past, yet the crime rate soars. The city spends more on education per capita than almost any other major municipality in the country, but reading scores scarcely rise. The Board of Education is notoriously overloaded with employees...
Today the Labor Department says that, while the overall ratio of women to men in the work force has not changed significantly in the past few years (38% are women v. 32% in 1972), many more women have moved into professional and technical job categories. Nearly 32% of the nation's 36 million working women are now employed in these higher rated areas, up from...
Garrity's aim is to bus enough students to ensure that the racial mixture at most Boston public schools conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized...
Harvard has the capacity right now to equalize or improve the male-female ratio in the College, but it doggedly resists doing so. Radcliffe, which should want to add to its numbers, does not have the power to do so. Until Harvard lives up to its responsibility to educate students regardless of sex and admit them without a pre-conceived ratio in mind, equal access is just another euphemism for inequality...