WASHINGTON, Dec. 20, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
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Profile America — Tuesday, December 20th. Throughout history, bachelors have had to put up with a lot of pressure from friends, family and society in general. They tend to be stereotyped, and for years many television sitcoms have portrayed their supposedly dissolute lives. But no insult can rival that enacted in Missouri on this date 1820, when the legislature voted to tax bachelors between the ages of 21 and 50 $1 a year — just for being unmarried. Obviously, the tax did not stand the test of time or legality. Today, around 35 percent of males over age 15 have never been married, compared with almost 29 percent of females. Together, they number around 80 million people, nearly a quarter of the total population of close to 325 million. You can find more facts about America's people, places and economy, from the American Community Survey, at www.census.gov.
Sources:
Kane's Famous First Facts, 7644
Marital status/Table A1:
http://www.census.gov/hhes/families/data/cps2015A.html
Population: http://www.census.gov/popclock/
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotion of the U.S. Census Bureau. Statistics and accounts drawn from cited non-Census sources are employed for illustrative or narrative purposes, and are not attested to by the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Audio" in the "Library" pull-down menu).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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