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Updated on Sunday, May 20, 2002
Census 2000: Window to a turbulent decade
Hawai‘i is home to a growing legion of singles and divorced people.
Fewer residents are going to college, but more have degrees.
The ranks of Hawai‘i’s foreign-born residents and those who speak another language in the home are on the rise.
These are some of the tidbits culled from data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, information taken from long-form responses in the 2000 census survey.
The release includes data that confirm what many of us knew: That the 1990s was a rough decade, economically speaking. <more>
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