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- NATION, Page 59American NotesPOPULATION250 Million And Counting
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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