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So Far, Census Return Rate Up to 54 Percent
By Tamara Lytle - AOL News(April 1) -- Mailing back your census form costs the federal government 42 cents in bulk postage. Not mailing it costs $57 and then some. Census officials used today's official Census Day to tout the civic value of filling out the form and the costs of not doing so. Census figures are used to allot everything from congressional seats to highway repair funds, from teaching slots to Walmart locations. So far, about 54 percent of households have turned in the questionnaire. That's not nearly good enough, according to the U.S. Constitution, which requires that everyone be counted every 10 ...
Genealogists Wring Hands Over Skimpy US Census
By Scott Martelle - AOL NewsLOS ANGELES (April 1) -- Welcome to Census Day 2010, when genealogists hold a figurative moment of silence for the researchers of tomorrow -- who they say will find very little of interest in the information the government is collecting today. The purpose of the census is to count everyone in the United States, with an eye toward divvying up congressional representation and federal funding. But from the beginning, most censuses have also included social and economic questions that yield a treasure trove for genealogists, including details such as the native tongues of respondents' parents, ...
President Obama Completes His Census Form (Have You?)
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyToday is Census Day, the 23rd in the history of the United States. That means that the Census Bureau wants a snapshot of where everybody is on April 1. President Obama already filled out his form. White House photographer Pete Souza snapped Obama working on the questionnaire on March 29 in the Oval Office. The White House released the photo on Thursday morning. Not only has the president been counted, but he included his mother-in-law, Marian Robinson, who lives with the First Family at the White House. (The form asks, "How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or ...
The Census and Me -- Life in 10-Year Chunks
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWhen my Census form arrived in the mail this week, I immediately flashed back to the afternoon in 2002 that I spent with my father at the New York Public Library hunched over a microfilm reader learning about his crawl-on role in the 1910 Census. Born before radio or World War I, my father had matured by the time he hit his 90s into a living time capsule, the missing link between now and then. But in an emotional sense, I did not understand how long ago then was until my father and I scrolled through the carefully hand-written Census listings for Audubon Avenue in upper Manhattan. There were ...
Ron Paul to Census Bureau: 'None of Your Business!'
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyLibertarian hero and small government crusader Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) has a message for the Census Bureau: "None of your business." In his weekly column for constituents, Paul writes that the only question the Census Bureau has the constitutional right to ask Americans is, "How many people live here?" Anything more than that, the congressman says, is an invasive expansion of government power. "It is not hard to imagine that information compiled by the census could be used against people in the future, despite claims to the contrary and the best intentions of those currently in charge of the ...
Census Matchup: New Orleans vs. Indianapolis
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Feb. 3) -- Football analysts will spend this week crunching numbers to predict whether the Saints or the Colts will win Super Bowl XLIV. The U.S. Census Bureau has some stats of its own about New Orleans and Indianapolis. Although they don't offer any insights about the outcome of Sunday's championship game, they do show the rival cities are closely matched in some areas -- demographically speaking. (Figures are from 2008, the latest available.) Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2008 American Community Survey Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2008 American Community Survey Source: U.S. Census ...
Census Uses a Charged Word on 2010 Survey
By Dana Chivvis - AOL News(Jan. 6) -- As the government prepares to roll out the 2010 Census on March 15, one of the 10 questions on the form already has people cringing. Question 9 asks respondents to designate their race and gives them the option of choosing "Negro," a term many have considered derogatory and antiquated for years. The question asks "What is person 1's race?" Of the 15 possible options, one is "Black, African Am., or Negro." The Office of Management and Budget sets racial definitions for the Census Bureau and all federal statistical reporting. In its standards, it says a "Black or African American" ...
Census Bureau Tries to Win Over Skeptics
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 4) -- The U.S. government thinks you count and is willing to spend an awful lot of money to convince skeptics. The Census Bureau today kicked off its 2010 Portrait of America Road Tour as part of a $340 million publicity blitz to increase awareness and allay suspicions about the once-in-a-decade population count. The unprecedented push was launched in New York City's Times Square, where a 46-foot trailer began a four-month, nationwide journey to extol the positive benefits of filling out the 10-question census form. A dozen other regional vans also will fan out to spread ...
Census Bureau Kicks Off Once-a-Decade Count
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Jan. 4) -- The Census Bureau kicks off its $300 million campaign Monday to prod, coax and cajole the nation's more than 300 million residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms. The bureau will mail out the 10-question forms to about 120 million households in March. On Monday, Census Director Robert Groves starts the nationwide campaign with an event in New York City where he is scheduled to unveil a 46-foot trailer called "Mail It Back." In all, 13 vehicles are to be present at about 800 events around the country, from small community happenings to the Super Bowl and ...
White Americans to Lose Majority Status by 2050
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 16) -- The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years - to 2050 - because the recession and stricter immigration policies have slowed the flow of foreigners into the U.S. Census Bureau figures released Wednesday update last year's prediction that white children would become a minority in 2023 and the overall white population would follow in 2042. The earlier estimate did not take into account a drop in the number of people moving into the U.S. because of the economic crisis and the immigration policies imposed ...
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