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Show 1970 forecast A recent study forecast the social and economic outlook for Americans in 1970 . . . There will be 210 million people, 20 million more than now . . .The average family will enjoy more than $8,800 of spendable income in-come a rise of $1,100 . . . 10 million new cars a year will be normal, compared with 7.5 million at present. 86 million Americans will be employed or looking for work. 10.3 million more than now . . More than 25 million young people will enter the labor force . . . There will be fewer workers aged 35 to 44 ... . People will be spending 70 billions bil-lions a year on cars, TV sets, appliances, furniture, and other durables up 19 billions from now. More than 7 million young people will be in college, up 2.6 million. High school enrollment enroll-ment will be up 20 per cent ... Colleges will have to spend 2.3 billions a year on new facilities fa-cilities to meet the enrollment boom a billion more than now . . . Americans will continue con-tinue to move west, by 1970, 37 million will live in the Mountain and Pacific States. Suburbs will continue to expand, ex-pand, central cities will be static . . . Farms will go on losing population, urban areas will expand . . .140 million Americans, or more than 65 per cent, will live in 212 metropolitan met-ropolitan areas less than 9 per cent of the total land area. |