The homeless count; Census' special one-night tally tonight; Effort may be 'flawed' but it's a start
March 20, 1990
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SAN FRANCISCO - Tonight, the nation's population-counters tackle what may be their biggest challenge in 200 years: Finding Dave Kane and Dorothy Maloney.
Kane and Maloney are homeless, or at least houseless. They live in a three-person pup tent under an approach to the Bay Bridge, walking distance from a shower over at an RV lot. At night, it's just a black hole.
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Countdown to Earth Day; Ecology goes from hippies to recycling
Apr. 9, 1990
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SAN FRANCISCO - No one is sure how the change occurred, but environmentalists agree something remarkable is sweeping the nation:
People in all walks of life are worrying about the health of the planet.
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The new big cities on the block; Indianapolis, San Jose, Jacksonville and others muscle out cities of old; 'Best-kept secret' in USA is out
Sept. 20, 1990
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INDIANAPOLIS - A score of gleaming shovels crowd the mayor's office here, their ground-breaking blades having birthed a spanking new skyline that rises from the plain of central Indiana.
At a time when old-style megalopolises like New York, Detroit and Philadelphia are struggling to dig out from the rubble of drugs, homelessness and other urban woes, Indianapolis has built a foundation of 736,653 people - a 5% jump since 1980, making it the USA's 12th largest city.
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Sun Belt to decide issues
Dec. 28, 1990
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The Sun Belt will set the USA's social and political agenda for the rest of the century.
Enormous growth, confirmed by the 1990 Census, will allow the South and West to bring their concerns to the forefront, much as the North and East did 100 years ago.
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1990: World's warmest year; Sizzler leaves many asking what's normal
Jan. 4, 1991
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Maine residents are scratching their heads, others are complaining and some wonder if they aren't in Texas.
"Unheard of," says Jeffery Allen, a Lincoln, Maine, hunting and fishing guide. "This is the first season I've hunted deer in 80-degree weather."
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More blacks calling suburbs home; Census still sees 'white flight'
March 12, 1991
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. - In 20 years living in suburban Chicago, John and Margaret Collins have been steered by real estate agents and snubbed by neighbors. Racial slurs have been shouted at their son.
So when the upper-middle-income black family bought a $350,000-plus house in this mostly white suburb last month, they didn't know what would happen.
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Rustic retirement; Influx of seniors breathing new life into rural hamlets; Seniors pose a challenge for towns
Apr. 5, 1991
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CLEVELAND, Ga. - A new cash crop is sprouting in rural America.
Retirees are bringing life to tired farm towns, truck stops and secluded mountain villages across the USA. Fed up with the crowds, crime and costs in established retirement communities in Florida and Arizona, they are revitalizing small towns from the mountains of Appalachia to the deserts of the southwest, from Idlewild, Mich., to Sayre, Okla.
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USA's 'great diversity'; N.J. town's changing face typifies trend
Apr. 11, 1991
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BOUND BROOK, N.J. - Walk into any of the schools in this suburban New Jersey district and you're likely to hear almost 20 different languages - including Laotian, Greek, Urdu, Hmong, Arabic, Tagalog, Tamac and Japanese.
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Abandoned elderly new, 'awful' trend
Apr. 10, 1991
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The day before Good Friday, an ambulance brought Shelby S. to Tampa General Hospital's emergency room.
She came alone, wearing only a nightgown and carrying no possessions.
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Home owning takes first dip since '30s
June 11, 1991
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Home ownership - a cornerstone to economic and social success in the USA - has slipped for the first time since the Great Depression.
Figures from the 1990 Census released Monday show 64.2% own their own homes, down from 64.4% in 1980.
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Blacks edge up in education
Sept. 20, 1991
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Black students were more likely to graduate from high school in the 1980s than ever before - one encouraging statistic in a decade full of grim numbers for blacks.
A Census Bureau report out today found that 72% of young black men and 78% of young black women were high school grads by 1988.
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Poverty up, income down; A 'rumbling in their stomachs'
Sept. 27, 1991
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The face of hardship is becoming more familiar.
For the first time since the recession began, the Census Bureau on Thursday put into numbers what many already knew: Nearly all groups in the USA - black and white, blue collar and white collar, Westerner and Easterner - are worse off than they've been in years.
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Older, younger boomers split by time, values
Feb. 11, 1992
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The older ones heard President John F. Kennedy and believed in their power to shape the future. They led the sexual revolution, protested Vietnam, bought homes young and watched their value soar.
The younger ones came of age in the era of cynicism, hostage-taking and inside trading. They chose career plans over activism and were labeled the "Me Generation," only to see the promise of homeownership slip out of reach.
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Middle class 'pulling apart' to rich, poor
Feb. 20, 1992
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The USA's middle class has shrunk substantially in two decades as many joined the growing ranks of the rich or the poor, the Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
Using the bureau's definition, a typical middle-class family of four earns from $18,576 to $74,303 a year.
