Activists are afraid that low participation will further cut services in the borough. Queens is especially tricky due to its high number of undocumented workers scared of deportation.
Huffington Post | Julian Hattem | Posted 11.10.2009 | Business
As part of its Bearing Witness 2.0 project, the Huffington Post is rounding up a few of the best local stories of the day. In Elkhart, Ind., coroner...
Daniel Cubias | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics
I expected the neocons to get upset over the census. What surprised me is that some Latino groups have joined people like noted nutjob Congresswoman Michele Bachmann in calling for a boycott.
Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 10.29.2009 | Denver
Today at a press tele-conference with Latino members of the press Senate Majority Leader Reid stated that he was keeping the anti-immigrant Vitter amendment from the floor of the Senate.
New York Times | SAM ROBERTS | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
A Republican senator's proposal to count only United States citizens when reapportioning Congress would cost California five seats and New York and Il...
Crain's New York Business | Greg David | Posted 10.27.2009 | New York
The 2010 census is expected to show that New York City has gained more residents this decade than any other city in the country. It will be one of jus...
National Journal Online | Thursday, October 22, 2009 | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics
Many of the House members in both parties who are most opposed to the health care reform legislation moving toward a historic vote represent districts...
Miguel Guadalupe | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York
Republican Senators have proposed to require all those who fill out census surveys to affirm their citizenship. That may be the final nail in the coffin of the GOP/Latino relationship.
Hector E. Sanchez | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics
Boycotting the census is not the right way to put pressure on the administration. Calling for a census boycott would only be a severe setback, hardly a way to advance the Latino agenda.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Allowing the Census Bureau to apply its scientific powers to the question of changing families is a breath of fresh air from which demographers, and the public, will ultimately benefit.
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
Sparkman's workaday life and violent death -- whatever the cause and whoever the culprit -- highlight the precarious struggles of the white working class and the brewing storm surrounding the 2010 Census.
nytimes.com | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics
Ms. Beltrán, a character in the popular Spanish-language soap opera "Más Sabe el Diablo," "The Devil Knows Best," represents only one element of the...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Census Bureau on Friday severed its ties with ACORN, a community organization that has been hit with Republican accusations of ...
Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago
An unintended consequence of the national war on illegal immigration is that a historically fractured community can come together as a cohesive group to enact change for itself.
Carlos A. Ball | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
I want to find reasons to still believe that the Obama Administration will do the right thing for LGBT people, and do it relatively soon.
Karl Frisch | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media
Pssst. Hey, conservatives ... I want to let you in on a devious little plan being hatched by your leaders in the media.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
One of the dirty not-so-little-secrets of the same-sex marriage debate is that the everyday benefits of marriage don't require legal marriage at all.
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 07.26.2009 | Home
WASHINGTON — Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on Wednesday urged Congress to immediately end a GOP block on President Barack Obama's nominee to lead th...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 07.21.2009 | Politics
SAN FRANCISCO — U.S. Census Bureau officials said Friday that married same-sex couples will be counted as such in the 2010 national tally, rever...
Think Progress | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Next year, the 2010 Census will be sent to every American household, as required by the U.S. Constitution. The far right has issued dire warnings of t...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.17.2009 | Chicago
One of the country's most junior Congressman is pressing President Obama to broaden the official recognition of same-sex married couples. U.S. Rep. M...
Illinois Issues | Daniel C. Vock | Posted 06.26.2009 | Chicago
The census' main role, prescribed by the U.S. Constitution, is to determine how many seats in the U.S. House of Representatives each state receives. O...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's pick to lead the Census Bureau on Friday ruled out the use of statistical sampling in the 2010 head count,...
azcentral.com | Daniel GonzáLez | Posted 05.18.2009 | Home
With the 2010 census less than a year away, officials have launched a campaign to build trust with undocumented immigrants amid growing concern that m...
Arizona Republic | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics
With the 2010 census less than a year away, officials have launched a campaign to build trust with undocumented immigrants amid growing concern that m...
Benedict Moran | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York