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- <text id=91TT0014>
- <title>
- Jan. 07, 1991: American Notes:Population
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Jan. 07, 1991 Men Of The Year:The Two George Bushes
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 59
- American Notes
- POPULATION
- 250 Million And Counting
- </hdr><body>
- <p> The numbers are finally in, but now come the words. The
- Census Bureau announced last week that on April 1, the U.S.
- population was 249,632,692--about 10% higher than the 1980
- count.
- </p>
- <p> The tally's completeness was challenged by Ohio
- Representative Thomas Sawyer, whose subcommittee oversees the
- Census. "The question is not whether they counted everyone--they haven't--but how close they came to an accurate count,"
- he said. Other squawks came, quite predictably, from
- Northeastern and Midwestern Governors whose states will lose
- federal funds and congressional seats because of population
- shifts to the West and the South. The government will decide by
- July whether revisions are justified.
- </p>
- <p> Last week's biggest winner was California (which will gain
- seven House seats, for a record total of 52), because its
- population leaped 26.1%. Next were Florida (four more seats) and
- Texas (three more). The biggest losers were New York (minus
- three), Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Illinois (each minus
- two).
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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