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California Would Lose Seats Under Census Change

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...

Uninsured Are Represented By Some Of Health Care Reform's Biggest Supporters -- And Critics, New Census Data Shows

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...

America's 10 Poorest Cities: Forbes

ABC News | Joshua Zumbrun | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


The Great Recession is rewriting the rules of American poverty. Data from the Census Bureau, released in September, show that during the first year of...

Spanish Speakers Targeted in Census Plan

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...

Bill Sparkman Murder: Tragic Details About Census Worker Found Hanged

Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


William E. Sparkman Jr. was a 51-year-old single father who once battled Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma while he pursued his teaching degree, according to a Mar...

Census Bureau Uses Spanish-Language Soap Opera to Reach Hispanics

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...

Recession Hits Immigrants Hard: Survey Finds Decline In Foreign-Born Residents For First Time In 40 Years

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...

What Do You Know? It's National Singles Week

Bella DePaulo | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living


Bella DePaulo

Our perceptions of single people and their place in society have not caught up with the realities. How well do you know your single people? Take this quiz.

Census Bureau Severs Ties With ACORN

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 ...

2010 U.S. Census? Count me in to Bring Home the Money, Honey

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 09.06.2009 | Chicago


Esther J. Cepeda

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.

Census 2010: The Right's Super-Secret Plan to End All Plans

Karl Frisch | Posted 08.02.2009 | Media


Karl Frisch

Pssst. Hey, conservatives ... I want to let you in on a devious little plan being hatched by your leaders in the media.

Census Pick Illustrates Broader Obama Strategy

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics


Michael J. O'Neil

President Obama does not want the political distraction of Republicans screaming that the Democrats have "fixed" the Census to produce a partisan result.

Senate Republicans Holding Up Census Nominee

The Washington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics


Robert M. Groves will have to wait a little longer to take the reins at the U.S. Census Bureau: Senate Republicans have placed a hold on his nominatio...

The Republican Party is a Mess

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics


Michael Fauntroy

The GOP is simply out of touch with the rest of the country and has a very long way to go to regain relevance in American politics.

Census Bureau Nominee Rules Out Use Of Sampling for 2010 Census

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,...

Judd Gregg's Attempt to Grab Control Over Census Foiled... by HuffPo

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Do not believe for a moment that Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination because of the stimulus bill. He withdrew because control of the Census Bureau was withdrawn.

Gregg Already Stripped Of Authority Over U.S. Census

CQ | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics


The director of the Census Bureau will report directly to the White House and not the secretary of Commerce, according to a senior White House officia...

Judd Gregg To Control 2010 Census. And, Why Not Trade Lieberman for a New Hampshire Democrat?

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics


Paul Abrams

Did we work so hard, raise so much money and spend so much time sleeping on floors and couches, to give a right wing conservative Republican control over the 2010 census?

Census: US In Economic Slump For Years

CBS | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business


It's not news to small-town Milledgeville, Ga. - population 20,000 - that the United States is now in a recession. Almost 1,000 people lost their job...

Federal Government Fails To Count -- And Help -- Many Of America's Poor

Jane Devin | Posted 11.14.2008 | Home


Jane Devin

Millions of America's poor are not counted in the official statistics. Variables -- like geography, non-cash benefits, and actual cost-of-living expenses -- make it difficult to gauge the number of people who subsist in our society with inadequate resources to meet essential daily needs.

Why Care About Projected U.S. Ethnicity and Age?

Robert Engelman | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media


Robert Engelman

It's pretty curious, given the country's aspiration to be unbiased by race or ethnicity, that the topic of our ethnic mix fascinates the Census Bureau and the news media so much.

Do Big Homes Mean Bigger Happiness?

Graham Hill | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green


Graham Hill

The funny thing is, while homes get bigger, and this McMansion trend swallows up neighborhoods and landmarks, families are actually getting smaller.

Times Editorial: Another Heck Of A Job

NY Times | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics


Any remaining hope for a modern, efficient and precise census in 2010 has cratered, brought low by managerial incompetence and the administration's re...

Boom Leaves Middle Class Behind

New York TImes | DAVID LEONHARDT | Posted 04.17.2008 | Business


How has the United States economy gotten to this point? It's not just the apparent recession. Recessions happen. If you tried to build an economy imm...

Bush Administration Hides More Data, Shuts Down Website Tracking U.S. Economic Indicators

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


The U.S. economy is faltering. Family debt is on the rise, benefits are disappearing, the deficit is skyrocketing, and the mortgage crisis has worsene...