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Every census misses some people, but those who are poor, male, urban, black, and Hispanic are most likely not to be counted. In 1980 and 1990, big city mayors complained that census undercounts were depriving their communities of their correct representation in Congress and of their fair share of state and federal dollars. The mayors filed lawsuits to demand recounts and statistical corrections to the census. Harvey Choldin tells the story of the conflict between Census Bureau staff and politici
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- Author
- Choldin, Harvey M.
- Publisher
- New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813520391
- Category
- politics
- Subjects
- Science, Sociology, Social Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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