America is changing and we need to know how. By voting to cut off funding for the American Community Survey, the Republican majority in the Congress has sought to complement its current "do-nothing" approach with a "know-nothing" information base.
Janet Murguía | Posted 05.25.2012
There's a lot of talk by the networks about reaching out to the Latino audience, but little action. Networks need to be brave enough to pick up shows with Latinos in starring roles. Learn from what works and what doesn't work, then try again until you succeed.
AP | CRISTIAN SALAZAR, DEEPTI HAJELA and RANDY HERSCHAFT | Posted 05.21.2012
NEW YORK — It was on the streets of her Harlem neighborhood in the 1940s that teenager Althea Gibson began working on the tennis skills that wou...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 05.18.2012
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, racial and ethnic minorities make up more than half the children born in the U.S., capping decades of heady im...
Heidi W. Durrow | Posted 05.16.2012
I'm used to checking "other" to describe myself. Still, imagine my surprise -- not at the recent headline that interracial marriages are at an all-time high -- but that my marriage is included among them.
Arturo Vargas | Posted 05.14.2012
It's Public Policy 101: before you step, you should look. Before charting a course and spending money, lawmakers should get the information they need to make the best decision.
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.14.2012
WASHINGTON -- The head of the U.S. Census Bureau hammered the House of Representatives on Friday for passing a bill that he said "devastates" the nati...
HuffingtonPost.com | Michael McAuliff | Posted 05.09.2012
WASHINGTON –- The House voted Wednesday to eliminate the detailed surveys of America that have been conducted by the Census Bureau since the nation...
Posted 05.07.2012
Has voter registration among Latinos and African-Americans gone up or down since the 2008 election? Considering how important these two voting blo...
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 04.26.2012
Apparently having a warm little nest makes it tough to leave home. Young adults from affluent families are more likely to live at home than their ...
Eleni Gage | Posted 04.23.2012
I hope the parents of all the other children of cross-cultural and interracial marriages -- even those who only count because of the new census -- have found their world similarly expanded.
Joan Michelson | Posted 04.23.2012
This progress is too slow and not audacious enough. We need Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG). What has to happen to flip the current energy paradigm, where oil is 3.6 percent of our energy consumption?
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.15.2012
The cost for nine relatives of the First Lady -- including her mother, grandparents and great-grandparents -- to rent these cozy quarters in 1940? $45 a month or roughly the equivalent of $737 today.
Reuters | Pauline Askin | Posted 04.14.2012
By Pauline Askin SYDNEY (Reuters) - Counting emperor penguins in their icy Antarctic habitat was not easy until researchers used new te...
The Huffington Post | Christiana Lilly | Posted 05.09.2012
In 1940, there were only four cities in the county we didn't yet call Miami-Dade. Thanks to the National Archives, who last week released handwrit...
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 04.04.2012
One has to wonder if nine-year-old Neil Armstrong, who once spent his days walking around St. Mary's, Ohio, ever imagined that he would eventually be the first to walk on the moon.
Megan Smolenyak | Posted 03.30.2012
On April 2nd, after a long wait of 72 years, the 1940 census will be released, and in a historic first, the collection will emerge online in digitized form -- a remarkable snapshot of a nation still recovering from the Great Depression and not yet aware of its approaching entry into war.
Posted 02.23.2012
While 2010 Census data showed us how quickly the Latino population has grown in just ten years, a new statistical portrait released Tuesday by the Pew...
AP | DALE WETZEL | Posted 03.28.2012
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — In the last two years, Williston school superintendent Viola LaFontaine has had to manage an influx of 480 new students brough...
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato | Posted 03.18.2012
"We all see what we want to see," someone wrote as a Facebook comment for this picture. What do you see when you look at it?
Marianne Mollmann | Posted 02.25.2012
The silver lining of the 2008 crisis might be that more Americans start seeing poverty for what it is: not something anyone "deserves."
Posted 12.08.2011
WNYC has built an interesting map using data from the Census Bureau to highlight the city's wealthiest and poorest neighborhoods. The data, which ...
Arloc Sherman | Posted 02.05.2012
The goal of a payroll tax holiday is to temporarily shore up consumer spending for working households; no one would mistake it for targeted antipoverty policy. Yet, it does have the added benefit of reducing poverty.
Joe Moreno | Posted 02.05.2012
Every decade Chicago's 50 aldermen redraw the fifty wards that make up our city. For the last two weeks, this remap process has been extremely time-consuming, divisive and painful for a few of my colleagues.
ABC News | Posted 12.03.2011
Good news for seniors: It's getting easier to get a date. That's one takeaway from a U.S. Census Bureau number crunch on older Americans. The senior p...
Ange-Marie Hancock | Posted 05.26.2012