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Government Executive Editor in Chief Tom Shoop, along with other editors and staff correspondents, look at the federal bureaucracy from the outside in.
Census Explores the Single Life
The Census Bureau is looking ahead to Unmarried and Single Americans Week in September. The bureau helpfully provides some facts and figures about the single life:
- 89.8 million Number of unmarried and single Americans in 2005.
- 54% Percentage of unmarried and single Americans who are women.
- 60% Percentage of unmarried and single Americans who have never been married. Another 25 percent are divorced and 15 percent are widowed.
- 86 Number of unmarried men age 18 and older for every 100 unmarried women in the United States.
- 904 Number of dating services nationwide as of 2002. These establishments, which include Internet dating services, employed nearly 4,300 people and pulled in $489 million in revenues.
Tom Shoop is vice president and editor in chief at Government Executive Media Group, where he oversees both print and online editorial operations. He started as associate editor of Government Executive magazine in 1989; launched the company’s flagship website, GovExec.com, in 1996; and was named editor in chief in 2007.
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