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The Ten States Running Out Of Children

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

247wallst.com - Jul. 04 (News Report) - The problems of the young are are not discussed much as the focus of the press and Washington policy has been on those people who are elderly now and the generation of Baby Boomers who are just behind them. The federal debt and increases in the deficit have put the retirement support of these people at risk. The credit crisis and state and municipal deficits have spawned an austerity movement that is unprecedented in U.S. history.

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Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports - The Washington Post

Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

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10 Facts About America's Gays

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

The Advocate - By Advocate.com Editors - Apr. 08 (Research) - As the Williams Institute celebrates a decade of gathering data to inform the nation about the LGBT population, the organization shares 10 facts that were uncovered about gay people, from our diversity to our impact on the federal deficit.

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The collapse of Detroit

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Scott Martelle - Mar. 27 (Opinion) - Imagine for a moment that every single person living in the city of San Jose, plus another 150,000 or so, just up and left. Vanished. Poof. Gone. Leaving their homes, business buildings and factories behind. That is, in effect, what has happened to the city of Detroit, according to 2010 U.S. Census data released this week.

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Census Bureau briefing

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Michael Martinez, David Ariosto - Mar. 24 (News Report) - The growing Hispanic population in the United States has reached a new milestone, topping 50 million, or 16.3% of the nation, officially solidifying its position as the country's second-largest group, U.S. Census Bureau officials said Thursday. "Overall, we've learned that our nation's population has become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years," Nicholas A. Jones, chief of the bureau's racial statistics branch, told reporters.

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Black populations fall in major cities - USATODAY.com

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

USA Today - By Haya El Nasser - Mar. 22 (News) - The black population is declining in a growing number of major cities more evidence that African Americans' settlement pattern is changing.

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What the New Census Data Can, and Can't, Tell Us About New Orleans

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Harry Shearer - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - The 2010 census figures about New Orleans made news (here, here, and here, for example), but the stories all came out at the height of the uprising in Egyptian cities, so you may have missed them. But, since they were all written from within the conventional narrative of the 2005 flooding (big storm, natural disaster), you certainly missed the more disturbing implications of those numbers.

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Bad Times Help Rust Belt Retain Power

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Nov. 24 (News Report) - A better economy saw people leaving the Midwest and Northeast in droves, taking their votes with them. But bad times mean they stay put — just in time for redistricting.

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Census Returns $1.6 Billion

Sat, 14 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Eliza Gray - Aug. 14 (News Report) - With the flow of government spending under increasing public scrutiny, the U.S. Census Bureau is doing something remarkable: it is giving some of its money back.

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New York Takes Swing at Prison Gerrymandering

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Emily Badger - Aug. 05 () - New York will likely be the third state to start counting prisoners as coming from their hometowns, and not where their cell is located.

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Census Bureau Shedding Hundreds of Thousands of Jobs

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:01:35 -0700

New York Times - By Michael Powell - Jul. 12 (News Report) - When the Census Bureau hired upward of 700,000 Americans over the last two years — most in the last six months — it landed more experienced workers with more sophisticated skills than any time in recent memory. This was the unintended upside of the nastiest recession of the last 70 years.

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Prison-Based Gerrymandering Creates Phantom Voters

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Yana Kunichoff - Apr. 11 (Special Report) - Anyone who is in prison on the first of April, 2010, will remain there for the next ten years - according to the US census . When the census counts prison populations, it counts them as residents of the towns in which they are incarcerated, not the communities they left and will most likely return to. With more than 2 million people currently incarcerated, advocates say this turns prisoners, who in most states cannot vote, into phantom voters.

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Officials worry anger at D.C. is behind low Texas census

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Houston Chronicle - By Richard S. Dunham, Meredith Simons - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Contrary to historical trends, some of the toughest challenges facing the agency responsible for measuring the nation's population are not from counting the traditionally undercounted groups such as African-Americans and Latinos. Instead, a new and growing threat to an accurate national head count is coming from anti-government conservatives who may not fill out their forms to protest against “Big Brother” in Washington.

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Demography is Destiny -- The Realignment of America

Tue, 08 May 2007 14:03:56 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Michael Barone - May. 08 (Opinion) - House seats and electoral votes will shift from New York, New Jersey and Illinois to Texas, Florida, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada; within California, House seats will shift from the Democratic coast to the Republican Inland Empire and Central Valley.

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