Puerto Rico Population Drops 10% Over Past Decade (tags)
Census Bureau estimates Puerto Rico's population shrinks by 10%, mostly during the island's financial crisis.
Atheist Census is back online! (tags)
We are pleased to let you know that Atheist Census is back online at URL below. PLEASE SIGN UP
The Sherrod factor
CENSUS needs part time workers...wanna take the test ? (tags)
Census is late but trying to recruit everyone especially people who can speak other languages too...here are the how-to-apply details I encountered doing it today
Census Bureau warns employees against speaking with the media (tags)
August 21, 2007 – As a result of a news tip provided to us through our Whistleblower web page last month, the Muckraker Report has been investigating a story involving potential theft, corruption, cover-up, and kickback schemes within the Department of Commerce’s U.S. Census Bureau.
Lawmakers and Census officials spar over the benefits of a Web-based survey (tags)
Coburn agreed with the subcommittee’s chairman, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Government Accountability Office officials and Lockheed Martin officials who said there is still time to include the Internet as an option for filling out the 2010 census survey.
A 21st-century head count (tags)
The Census Bureau prepares to conduct a decennial census like no other it has performed in its 220-year history
Extremely localized LA economics poster series (tags)
"Your stars will abandon you and you will kick me out of your house."
The results of the census, carried out in October and November, were at least 2 million less than originally had been projected.
Only the Rich Profit from US Growth (tags)
"The same Congress since 1997 has consistently rerfused to raise the minimum wage from $5.15.. The founding fathers defined their new form of government as government by the people for the people. In the meantime US democracy has become government by the rich for the rich.."
BTL:U.S. Poverty on the Rise, According to Census Bureau (tags)
Interview with Scott Klinger, co-director of United for a Fair Economy's Responsible Wealth Project, conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris
From Robert Rector and Kirk Johnson
A History of Racism in California (tags)
This is a repost from a listserv. It's about the fuzziness of laws that deal with Latinos. An IMC volunteer is putting it here as a semi-permanent public information resource.
The economy: Nothing to remain silent about (tags)
Nearly two months have passed since President Bush hosted an “economic summit” – a flop the People’s Weekly World headlined as “all show and no go.” As events have since shown, we may have understated the case: