Inside this issue:

• Black-Owned Businesses in 1992: Up 46 Percent in Number of Firms, 63 Percent in Receipts
• Data on Women-Owned Businesses
• More Minority-Owned Business Data on the Way!
• Biggest Counties See Few New Jobs
• Farm Facts
• Shipments of Cigarettes Show Decline in 1993
• Manufacturing and Mining Data on the Internet
• Bryant Benton Becomes Census Bureau Deputy Director
• “Lone Eagles”
• Getting It Wholesale
• Nancy Potok Named Census Bureau Controller
• Our Nation’s Housing in 1993
• Metropolitan Areas – Time for Major Revisions?
• U.S. Statistical Abstract CD-ROM
• Over Half of WIC Mothers Are Married
• Homeownership Rates Vary by Region
• Profiling America’s Asian and Pacific Islander Population
• 1995 Population Estimates for States
• Commuters – Three Out of Four Drove Alone
• Thirty-Something
• Urban and Rural – The Historical View
• New Year’s Population
• Labor Releases New 1994-2005 Employment Projections
• U.S. Statistics At A Glance
• In Memoriam: Jackson Hamer Morton