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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 ...
Census Data: Short Commutes in Alaska; Pricey Homes in Nantucket
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Dec. 14) -- Alaskans have the shortest commutes to work -- less than 10 minutes in many areas. Homeowners on Nantucket Island, off Massachusetts, live in the nation's more expensive houses -- the median home value is $1 million. And residents of Washington, D.C., suburbs are the best educated. Those characteristics are among the new findings released today by the U.S. Census Bureau as part of its American Community Survey for 2005 to 2009. In all, the bureau released 11 billion bits of data involving 670,000 distinct geographic areas. It is the largest single-day release of data ...
Minorities Make Up 35 Percent of U.S. and Over 50 Percent of Four States
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyMinorities now make up 35 percent of the U.S. population and count for more than 50 percent of residents in Texas, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Washington, D.C., the Census Bureau says in new estimates for 2009. The update indicates that minorities increased by 107.2 million people, or 2.5 percent, last year, with growth coming from Hispanic births and individuals who identify as biracial. The white population remained flat at just under 200 million, 65 percent of the country. In 2000, whites made up 79 percent of the population, the Associated Press said. The overall minority ...
Under One Roof: Is the Multi-Generational Family Back to Stay?
By Ria Misra - Politics DailyA recent report from the Pew Research Center found that 16 percent of Americans -- 49 million people -- now live in households with more than one adult generation of family members. But it's not just the recession that's driving the change. The multi-generational family is back for other reasons -- and it could be here to stay. Of course, there's no denying that the recession has accelerated the move toward extended families living together. "From 2007 to 2008, there were approximately 2.6 million more people moving in to multi-generational households. That's a 5 percent jump in just one ...
Pat Buchanan's Nightmare? Black, Asian, Hispanic Voting Rates Rising
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyPat Buchanan and Chuck D. Now that's a show I would pay to see.In 1990's "Fear of a Black Planet," the third album from Chuck D's influential hip-hop group Public Enemy, the title-track lyrics asked: "What is pure? Who is pure? Is it European state of being? I'm not sure."Conservative commentator Pat Buchanan would seem to have no such uncertainty. He counseled Republicans to score political points during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Sonia Sotomayor by stoking white resentment. On Rachel Maddow's show on MSNBC, he said: "This has been a country built basically by white ...
Study Forecasts Huge Demographic Changes
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe Pew Research Center published a study of the United States population that forecasts the changing nature of the makeup of the nation's citizenry based upon current trends. Among the study's most consequential findings is its prediction that by 2020, 12 years from now, the percentage of foreign-born Americans will eclipse the record set in the late-1800s. At that time, large influxes of Irish, Italian, and other immigrants from Western Europe swelled the foreign-born percentage of the population to 15%. But by early in this century, if current immigration trends continue, the foreign born ...
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