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Checking America's vital signs. (Bird's Eye).
The federal government spent $6.5 billion conducting the 2000 census. That's $56 per American home, and twice what was spent to conduct the 1990 census. An audacious sum for a statistical exercise, no matter how you look at it. I suggest less costly methods should be planned for the 2010 census.
Meantime, a mighty mound of numbers detailing the national condition has chugged out of the Census Bureau computers over the last six months, complementing heaps of data gathered by private organizations and companies, as well as other government agencies. We decided to mine that statistical rockpile for an issue of The American Enterprise. In the pages that follow, we ...
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