Inside this issue:

• $104 Billion in Receipts for Firms Owned by Asians and Pacific Islanders, American Indians, and Alaska Natives
• Uncle Sam As Customer
• Nothing Could Be Finer: Manufacturing statistics for each State
• County Business Patterns – Get the Local Angle
• Housing and Your Neighborhood
• It’s Your Castle!
• Room to Let
• Almost Half of the Nation’s Chronic Poor Are Children
• Other “Official Statistics”
• America’s Monthly Chronicle – The Current Population Survey
• U.S. Statistics At A Glance
• Commerce Revises Sampling Plans for Census 2000