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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.
Gautam Dutta | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
David Vitter just introduced a bill that would ban millions of immigrants from being counted in the census. This bill is undemocratic, unconstitutional, and un-American.
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...
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.
AP | JEFFREY McMURRAY | Posted 10.11.2009 | Politics
BIG CREEK, Ky. — The manager of a part-time census taker who died under mysterious circumstances in southeastern Kentucky says other workers are...
The Colorado Independent | Katie Redding | Posted 10.05.2009 | Denver
As a proposed national Latino census boycott receives increased media attention, many Latino and immigrant organizations in Colorado say they're thank...
nytimes.com | PETER APPLEBOME | Posted 10.05.2009 | New York
Westchester County, No. 1. Nassau, No. 2. Hunterdon and Bergen in New Jersey, Nos. 3 and 4, respectively. And so it goes. Of the 10 counties in the...
Posted 09.29.2009 | Denver
The AP reports that new census data indicates the poverty rate--defined by the "a family of four earning less than $22,050 a year... or an individual...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — The recession has hit middle-income and poor families hardest, widening the economic gap between the richest and poorest Americans ...
AP | AMY TAXIN | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
LONG BEACH, Calif. — When Teresa Ocampo opens her census questionnaire, she won't have to worry about navigating another document in English. T...
Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, B...
Richard M. Benjamin | Posted 09.26.2009 | 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.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Last night's reports of the murder of a US Census worker will bring national attention to the emerging politics of the Census count, something that we've long been worried about at NDN.
nytimes.com | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 09.22.2009 | 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 09.22.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings an...
Wall Street Journal | CONOR DOUGHERTY and MIRIAM JORDAN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Business
The number of foreign-born residents of the U.S. declined for the first time since at least 1970, as a recession and tight labor market dented America...
The Atlantic | Ronald Brownstein | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
Thursday's annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau's principal report card on the well-being of average Am...
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 ...
Earnest Harris | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics
Barack Obama is both black and white and he is neither black nor white, and he is mixed and he is half. He is all of those things and he is none of those things.
Michael Laracy | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics
It's time to update the poverty measure. The current U.S. poverty measure is a 1960s creation -- needless to say a lot has changed since then.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
Under the new House proposal for health care reform, blue states will be picking up more than their share of the tab, according to a new study from th...
Lee Stranahan | Posted 08.14.2009 | Comedy
Rep. Michele Bachmann is asking Americans to stand up and not be counted! It's a bold move that defies even the remaining conventional wisdom of her party.
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.
Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago
For the second year in a row, Chicago's overall population increased, challenging the trend of declining population as the economy causes many urban r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Bachmann has drawn a line in the sand, and will not fill out the Census, and no one really cares because who in America really wants to see government resources allocated to the Bachmann demographic, anyway?
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Benedict Moran | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York