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ADVISORY/ Make Your Own Election Prediction !!! Florida 2000 Census and Demographic Data Now Available Instantly On the Web.


Business/Technology Editors

ADVISORY...for Friday (Nov 17)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

TO: Election 2000 Journalists and Broadcasters

FROM: Fact City

DATE: November 17, 2000

RE: Instant Web Access to State and County Data for Florida and All 50 States

Both candidates are projecting victory, vote recounts are being contested and some Florida residents are claiming the whole process was illegal. The pundits are making predictions--and now so can you! Florida demographic information is now easily accessible on the Web...

Head to the iWon(TM) Fact Finder fact finder (finder of fact) n. in a trial of a lawsuit or criminal prosecution, the jury or judge (if there is no jury) who decides if facts have been proven.  where you can find out the hard statistics about the Sunshine State--population, spending and family data on a state and county basis. iWon.com has joined forces with Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 search enhancer Fact City to deliver a free, interactive service for finding Census 2000 information.

From the recognizable Florida locales like West Palm Beach to the lesser-known areas like Alachua, iWon.com and Fact City provide instant answers to plain English Plain English (sometimes known, more broadly, as plain language) is a communication style that focuses on considering the audience's needs when writing. It recommends avoiding unnecessary words and avoiding jargon, technical terms, and long and ambiguous sentences.  questions--from the iWon.com Fact Finder located at http://www.factcity.com/iwon.

Questions answered with the Fact City service include:

--What is the population of Dade County Dade County can refer to the following places:
  • Dade County, Florida, in the southeastern part of the state now renamed Miami-Dade County
  • Dade County, Georgia, the state's northwestern-most, bordering Alabama and Tennessee
, FL?

--What is the Hispanic Hispanic Multiculture A person of Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Central or South American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race Social medicine Any of 17 major Latino subcultures, concentrated in California, Texas, Chicago, Miam, NY, and elsewhere  population of FL?

--What is the average age in Palm Beach County, FL?

--How many families earn more than 30K in FL?

All statistics delivered through the iWon.com/Fact City service are provided by CACI's Marketing Systems Group, the demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data.  and market analysis specialists. To get all the details about the Sunshine State, visit http://www.iwon.com.

For more information, please call Lauren Locke at 781-684-0770 or llocke@schwartz-pr.com.
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