Judge Blocks Government's Move To Cut ACORN Funding
NEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the emba...
NEW YORK — The U.S. government's move this fall to cut off funding to ACORN was unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled Friday, handing the emba...
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 12.09.2009 | New York
WASHINGTON — A steady flow of new immigrants is providing a late-decade population boost to major metropolitan areas such as Chicago, Miami, New...
USA Today | Posted 12.09.2009 | Home
The recession has brought a nation built on moving from place to place to a standstill not seen since World War II, but immigration continues in major...
Christine Schanes | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living
Finding unsheltered working homeless people can be accomplished by talking to the organizers, volunteers, service providers or friends who know these homeless people.
Frank Sharry | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics
The 2010 Census will have a profound effect on the U.S. political landscape. An astonishing number of states will owe new Congressional seats, in large part, to their new Latino constituents.
AP | BY HOPE YEN and FRANK BASS | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — America's small cities are losing some of their traditional appeal to upwardly mobile families seeking wholesome neighborhoods, a s...
Benedict Moran | Posted 11.13.2009 | New York
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 11.29.2009 | 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 11.28.2009 | 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 11.28.2009 | 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 11.27.2009 | 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 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.
Simon Rosenberg | Posted 11.24.2009 | 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 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 11.21.2009 | 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 11.21.2009 | 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.
AP | ADAM GOLDMAN | Posted 12.12.2009 | Politics