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Race in America: 5 Take-Aways From the 2010 Census
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsThe Census Bureau has released its final figures for the 2010 count, revealing new details about the makeup of the 308.7 million people in the United States and how they live. Here are five insights about America's racial mix that emerge from the report: 1. The geography of race The minority population, driven by a 43 percent increase in Hispanics, grew in all four regions of the country. But it grew most in the West. Nearly half of the West's population of 33.9 million is now minority. That is largely due to California, which also has the largest minority population of any state: 22.3 ...
Hispanic Population Passes 50 Million in US but Raises Question
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Hispanic population topped 50 million for the first time, new census data shows, as Latinos became the second-largest population group in the United States. The Census Bureau today released its final numbers for the 2010 census, which show how rapid growth of the Asian and Hispanic population dramatically transformed the U.S. into a more ethnically diverse country than it was 10 years ago. The swelling Hispanic population made up more than half the 27.3 million increase in population in the U.S. since 2000. While the nation's population grew by 9.7 percent in the past ...
DHS, Interior Among 5 of the Worst-Run Federal Programs
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Government Accountability Office released its biennial list of the poorest performing government agencies today -- and this year, the Interior Department's management of the nation's oil and gas resources made the list for the first time. This should come as no surprise, given the breathtaking scope of the lapses by the Minerals Management Service that came to light during the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The transgressions, catalogued by Interior's inspector general, included gifts, trips and football tickets given to inspectors, who sometimes let oil and gas companies fill in ...
World's Oldest Person Dies at 114 -- or Was It 115?
By not in system - AOL NewsA Texas woman believed to be the world's oldest person died today at the official age of 114, although she had maintained she was actually 115. Eunice Sanborn died at 6 a.m. at her home in Jacksonville, her close friend and caretaker, David French, told the Jacksonville Daily Progress. Jacksonville Daily Progress / AFP / Getty Images Eunice Sanborn, who was recognized as the world's oldest person, died Monday at her home in Jacksonville, Texas. According to official records, she was 114 years old, but she maintained she was really 115. "The Lord just called her home," French ...
Census: We'll Have 100 Billion Bits of Data by 2013
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsBy the time the Census Bureau is finished reporting all the ways it will digest the 2010 population count, demographers will have released 100 billion bits of data. The bureau plans to release the data in a series of reports that will be rolled out through September 2013. The scope of the detail to be made available promises to be broader and more inclusive than ever before and will include a wide variety of information, such as housing vacancy rates and the number of same-sex households, Census Director Robert Groves said. "When we are through with the census, we would have given back to ...
By the Numbers: 10 Random Facts From Statistical Abstract of the US
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- New Hampshire has the smallest percentage of poor people of any state, and West Virginia does the best job of raking in lottery revenue. Those are just two of the superlatives scattered inside the federal government's brand-new compendium of information -- both vital and trivial -- released today in the form of the 130th edition of the Statistical Abstract of the United States. This year's abstract, published by the Census Bureau, contains 1,407 tables of the latest available social, political and economic facts about the nation and the world. New this year: statistics on U.S. ...
Census Shows Slowing US Growth, Brings GOP Gains
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Republican-leaning states will pick up a half dozen House seats thanks to the 2010 census, which found the nation's population growing more slowly than in past decades but still shifting to the South and West. The Census Bureau announced Tuesday that the nation's population on April 1 was 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade ago. The growth rate for the past decade was 9.7 percent, a slower pace than the 13.2 percent population increase from 1990 to 2000. Only one state, Michigan, lost population during the past decade. Nevada, with a 35 percent increase, was the ...
New Census Count Out Tuesday Will Determine State Seats in Congress
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyIt happens only once a decade. On Tuesday, the U.S. Census Bureau unveils the official population counts based on the 2010 Census and announces how many seats each state gets in the 435-member House of Representatives. Based on population shifts, the big winner on Tuesday is likely to be Texas, with a pickup of up to four seats. The biggest losers will probably be New York and Ohio, projected to shed two seats. The allocation of congressional seats based on the census, conducted every ten years, is called for in the Constitution. The process of figuring out how many seats each state gets ...
While Most of US Struggled, Good Times Rolled in Wyoming
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsOn the newly released U.S. Census Bureau maps, Wyoming stands out like an island of prosperity in a vast American interior where household income has steadily declined over the last decade. The Cowboy State's good fortune flows mostly from the oil and gas boom that began as the new century dawned and may last through the next decade as well. The hot streak has drawn new residents looking for work, filled state coffers with a budget surplus and spurred large leaps in median household income in 16 of Wyoming's 23 counties. "We are probably unlike every other state in the country," said Richard ...
Census Count May Complicate Obama's 2012 Bid
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month's devastating elections. The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a trend the Census Bureau will detail in its once-a-decade report to the president. Political clout shifts, too, because the nation must reapportion the 435 House districts to make them roughly equal in population, based on the latest census ...
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