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The 10 Best Economically Performing Cities

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 12.18.2011

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A struggling labor market may be one of the most significant problems currently facing the United States, but some cities are starting to return to pr...

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Census Shows Half Of Americans Are Poor, Low-Income

AP | By HOPE YEN | Posted 12.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Squeezed by rising living costs, a record number of Americans – nearly 1 in 2 – have fallen into poverty or are scraping by on earni...

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CHART: Poverty Is Up, But The Poor Are Paying The Most Taxes

HuffingtonPost.com | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 11.27.2011

WASHINGTON -- Newly released U.S. Census data reveal that poverty levels have skyrocketed, but in most states, the tax systems disproportionally burde...

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Beware the Wrong Lessons from Poverty and Income Data

Jeff Madrick | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Taxes, Census, Unemployment, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, Poverty, Jobs Creation, Census Data, Jobs, Bush Tax Cuts, Business News

The poverty data released by the Census Bureau last week may well be the straw that broke the camel's back -- the camel being those deliberately blind people who can't seem to acknowledge that most Americans are doing poorly.

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America's Richest States: 24/7 Wall St.

24/7 Wall St. | Posted 11.16.2011

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From 24/7 Wall St.: The national poverty and income figures released recently by the government paint a dark picture of the economy. The total number ...

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Number Of Americans Living In Poverty Hits 52-Year High, 27.4 Percent Of Blacks Under The Poverty Line

HuffingtonPost.com | Trymaine Lee | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Census Data, Black Poverty Rate, Poverty Rate, Black Unemployment, Black Voices News

The number of Americans living in poverty in 2010 hit a 52-year high, according to a report released by the U.S. Census Bureau today. As the poverty r...

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Inflation-Adjusted Income For Median Male Worker Hits 1968 Levels

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Eat the Press, Unemployment, Poverty, US Median Income, Inflation, Inflation-Adjusted Income, Census Data, Median Income, Politics News

Yo, this one goes out to all the median male workers in the house. How you livin' median male workers? Before you answer that, let me guess. You're ho...

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Small Business and the Simple Math of Job Creation

Carol Roth | Posted 11.13.2011

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There are 28 million small businesses in this country that only need to hire an employee or two on average to completely reverse the jobs crisis. That must not be ignored.

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Latino Student, Teacher Populations Don't Match Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.12.2011

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One day during his first week teaching fourth grade in San Antonio’s largely Hispanic Bonham Academy, David Nungaray -- a Teach for America teacher ...

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U.S. Census: Illinois Sees Surge In Same-Sex Relationships

Posted 10.04.2011

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Story by Joseph Erbentraut, courtesy of the Windy City Times The statistics on same-sex couples in Illinois from the latest decennial census were u...

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A 'Huge Weapon' For Obama?

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.31.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The biggest political story over the past week didn't involve a bus tour, sordid tweets sent from a congressman's account or even the po...

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Six Simple Ways To Help Ease Poverty In America

Gimundo | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Working Poor, Census, Poverty, Unemployment, America, Homelessness, Helping Others, Census Data, United States, Good News, Impact News

One in seven Americans live under the poverty line, according to the latest census data. That doesn't mean they have to live in poverty. Never in t...

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Poverty in the Era of Data

Marcelo Giugale | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Census Data, Social Data, Government Data, Data Poverty, Gathering Data, Poverty Data, Data Development, World News

Data is doing to public subsidies today what privatization did to public enterprises two decades ago: it is lifting the veil of inefficiency. With better household surveys, we can identify who exactly benefits from every dollar the government spends.

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Public Pension Funds Recovering, But Many Still Too Weak To Keep All Promises

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 06.28.2011

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A fresh annual survey of the nation's public pension plans released Thursday revealed that government employee retirement funds plunged in value by a ...

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The New Center Of Nation's Population

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Hispanics accounted for more than half of the U.S. population increase over the last decade, exceeding estimates in most states as they ...

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Pols: NYC Census Numbers Short By More Than 200K People

Posted 05.25.2011

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A drastic under-count by the US Census could cost New York City hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid, local politicians said. The New Yor...

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2010 Census Shows Asians, Latinos Spur State's Population Growth

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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LOS ANGELES -- New census data shows Latinos and Asians accounted for virtually all of California's population growth over the last decade. Data fr...

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Post-Katrina New Orleans Richer, Whiter, Emptier

Bloomberg | David Mildenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Census Data, New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans Population, Post-Katrina New Orleans, Business News

Five years after Hurricane Katrina drove Lena Johnson from New Orleans, her family's home since the 1930s, she misses its food, music and Mardi Gras. ...

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Multifamily Households Rise As More Americans 'Double Up'

nytimes.com | Michael Luo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Census Bureau data released in September showed that the number of multifamily households jumped 11.7 percent from 2008 to 2010, reaching 15.5 million...

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The Most Surprising Facts From The 2010 Census

Posted 05.25.2011

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Think you can name the one state in America that actually lost residents since 2000? Today the Census Bureau released a vast trove of data for the...

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U.S. Population Hits 308.7 Million

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau says the U.S. population is 308.7 million, reflecting the lowest growth since the Great Depression. Census Bureau ...

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Tattered Safety Net Still Keeps Millions From Poverty; Fix the Holes, Save Millions More

Karen Dolan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census Data, Poverty, Economic Stimulus Package, Bush Tax Cuts, Economic Crisis, Politics News

Cross-posted with OtherWords Most of us have friends, neighbors, or family members who have lost jobs, income, and even their homes in this Great Re...

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Erickson Shotgun-Census Remark: Commerce Dept. Pushes Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Commerce Department is pushing back against census critics, subtly reminding conservative blogger and CNN contributor Erick Erickson that the work...

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Can the Census Handle a Changing America?

Erica Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Census, Identity, Demographics, Ethnicity, Diversity, Minorities, Identity Politics, Census Data, U.S. Census, Racial Identity, Politics News

The Census is a telling--and at times controversial--window into the issue of identity. How people within the American "melting pot" identify themselves is often an insightful narrative on the society's relationship with race, ethnicity, assimilation, and culture.

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The Federal Aid Jackpot: States That Receive The Most Federal Assistance (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Think of the census as a sweepstakes worth up to $500 billion per year. In advance of the 2010 Census, a new report by the Brookings Institution poi...

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