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

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.

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Chicago Population Increases By 20,000

Chicago Tribune | Posted 08.01.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Census, Chicago Population, Chicago Population Growth, Chicago Suburban Flight, Chicago News

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...

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Michele Bachmann's Census Theories Too Much For Glenn Beck

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Conspiracy Theories, Michele Bachmann, Video, Acorn, Glenn Beck, Bachmann Census, Politics News

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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Bachmann Compares Census To WWII Internment Camps

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Conspiracy Theories, Re-Education Camps, Video, Bachmann-Census, Michele Bachmann, Acorn, Internment Camps, Japanese Internment, Politics News

You know, with each passing day, I grow worried that future generations will walk this earth completely unaware of the delicate and brilliant grasp of...

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White House Looks To Include Same-Sex Unions In Census Count

wsj.com | JAKE SHERMAN | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, White House, Marriage, Census Count, White House Same-Sex Unions, Same-Sex Unions, Gay Marriage, Same Sex Marriage, Politics News

The White House said Thursday it was seeking ways to include same-sex marriages, unions and partnerships in 2010 Census data, the second time in a wee...

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Bachmann Pledges To Break Law By Ignoring 2010 Census

Think Progress | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Norm Coleman, 2010 Census, Census, Acorn, Minnesota, Michele Bachmann, Al Franken, Bachmann, Bachmann Census, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Politics News

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...

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Census Pick Illustrates Broader Obama Strategy

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Reapportionment, Census Bureau, Robert Groves, Census Sampling, Politics News

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

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Senate Republicans Holding Up Census Nominee

The Washington Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Susan Collins, Census, Senate, Census Bureau, Robert M. Groves, Obama Nominee, Obama, Groves, Republican Senators, Republicans, Politics News

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...

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Unemployment Rate: Part-Timers Are Hidden From Data

AP | FRANK BASS | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Unemployment Numbers, Census, Part-Time Workers, Part-Time Jobs, Unemployment, Under-Employed, Business News

TOWNSHEND, Vt. — When the monthly unemployment figures come out Friday, Greg Noel will go from collecting government statistics to becoming one....

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What We Measure Matters

Chip Conley | Posted 06.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Census, Gdp, Leisure, Ghandi, United Nations, Bhutan, Development, The-Leisure-Famine, Muhammad Yunus, Happiness, Business News

Modern man has been liberated by prosperity but not fulfilled by it; psychologists and economists are seeking new ways to measure the intangibles of public welfare.

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Are You Ready for the Year 2050?

Deborah Jiang Stein | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Census, Multiracial, Mutt, Population, Race, Living News

Everyone needs to be ready for a new landscape: all shades and all hues of skin color and cultures.

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Tax Day Reminds Same-Sex Couples of Inequality

Naomi G. Goldberg | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, President Obama Gay Marriage, Taxes, Tax Day, The-Williams-Institute, President Obama, Gay Rights, Federal Taxes, State Taxes, Lbgt Rights, Benjamin Franklin, Gay Marriage, Ulca, Politics News

Candidate Obama promised equality for same-sex couples under federal law. We encourage President Obama to fulfill that promise before 2010 tax returns come due.

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No Religion? No Problem

Nica Lalli | Posted 05.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Religion, Atheism, Census, Richard Dawkins, God Bless America, Living News

Demographers are already salivating ahead of the upcoming U.S. Census, which will no doubt show just how different 2010 America is from 2000 America.

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Chicago-Area Population Grows: New Census Data

AP | Posted 04.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Chicago Population, Census, Chicago Population Growth, Chicago Demographics, Illinois Population, Chicago Census, Chicago News

Chicago and its suburbs have been home to some of the largest and fastest-growing areas of the country, according to Census data released Thursday. T...

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Court Will Not Expand Minority Voting Rights

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, 2010 Census, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Voting Rights Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court limited the reach of the Voting Rights Act on Monday, a decision that could make it harder for some minority cand...

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Democrats, Minority Groups Relieved That Gregg Won't Oversee Census

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Minority Organizations, Judd Gregg Commerce, Census, Immigration Groups, Judd Gregg, Census Redistricting, Redistricting Proposals, Minority Groups, Gregg Census, Politics News

News that Commerce Secretary nominee Judd Gregg will relinquish his responsibilities to oversee the Census Bureau is being greeted with a sigh of reli...

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Population up 2.7 million this year

AP | Posted 01.29.2009 | Home

Read More: Us Population Grows, Us Cenus Spopulation, US Census, US Population, Census, Home News

WASHINGTON — My, how the country has grown. The United States will enter 2009 with 305,529,237 residents, the Census Bureau estimated on Monday...

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Census: US In Economic Slump For Years

CBS | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Cenus Report, Census Us in Economic Slump for Years, Census Bureau, Economic Crisis, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Census, Business News

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...

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Sea census leads to discoveries of marine wonders

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 12.10.2008 | Green

Read More: New Ocean Creatures, Ocean Diversity, Ocean Census, Census, Green News

WASHINGTON — A city of brittle stars off the coast of New Zealand, an Antarctic expressway where octopuses ride along in a flow of extra salty w...

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Why 8 Million (or More) African-Americans are Unregistered

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Census, Presidential Elections, Barack Obama, Voter Registration, Voters, Ex Felon Voting Ban, Democrats, African-Americans, Republicans, Politics News

By not voting, the critics say, blacks betray the struggle and sacrifice of those who fought and in some cases died for their rights to vote. This guilt laden reprimand is much too simplistic.

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Births Up -- No, Down!: Stats and the Politics of Fertility Anxiety

Elizabeth Gregory | Posted 09.27.2008 | Style

Read More: Family Friendly Policy, Census, Sex, Breaking News, Birth Rates, Cdc, Fertility, Fertility Anxiety, Living Childfree, Teen Birth Rise, Women's Work, Women's Education, Style News

Anxiety helps put pressure on women to have babies now, at whatever age -- along with the recent highly politicized decreases in access to birth control, especially for younger women.

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

Robert Engelman | Posted 09.14.2008 | Media

Read More: 2050, Census, Aging, Race, Ethnicity, Population, Census Bureau, Demographics, Changing Demographics, Us Population Projections, Media News

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.

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Census Projections: U.S. Will Be Half Minority By 2042

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Census Minorities, US Census Bureau, Census Elderly, Social Security, Minority Children, Census Projections, Working Age, Minority Populations, Census, Politics News

Some amazing projections were released by the U.S. Census Bureau this morning: by the year 2042, more than half of America's population will be made u...

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Census Data Reveals The Changing Face Of America

CBS News | Posted 09.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Census Data, Census, Census Date America, Census Date Minorities, Home News

Census figures reveal a new reality in America's classrooms, reports CBS News correspondent Nancy Cordes. Minority populations are climbing everywhere...

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