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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 ...
US Hispanic Population Soars According to Census [VIDEO]
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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 ...
Can Anything Be Done to Help Cities Like Detroit?
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsEven for those who watched the long, slow decline of Detroit, the new census count stunned: The one-time powerhouse of the industrial Midwest lost 25 percent of its population in the past 10 years, falling below 715,000 residents. Detroit Mayor Dave Bing moved swiftly to announce the city would challenge the accuracy of the official count and focus like a laser on luring new residents and new business. "We must confront reality ... and commit to doing things differently," Bing said at a news conference. "If we don't change, the population drain will continue." But Bing -- and his successors ...
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: Don't Blame Katrina for Louisiana's Loss of Clout
By Laura Parker - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Conventional wisdom holds that Hurricane Katrina's destructive powers have cost Louisiana one of its seven seats in Congress in the new census because thousands of people were forced to relocate. But it turns out that Katrina may not be to blame after all. Greg Rigamer, a demographer and president of GCR & Associates, a New Orleans consulting firm, said the state's growth was so sluggish in the past decade that it was on track to lose a seat in the House of Representatives and one of its nine electoral votes anyway. Between 2000 and 2005, the nation's population grew at a rate ...
2010 Census: US Growth Slowest Since Depression
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The number of Americans reached 308,745,538 people this year, rising 9.7 percent in the first decade of the 21st century for the slowest growth rate since the Great Depression, according to figures released today from the 2010 census. The 23rd decennial population count, required by the Constitution, will be used to divvy up 435 House seats for the 113th Congress, which will convene in 2013. As in recent reapportionments, states in the South and West will gain at the expense of those in the Northeast and Midwest. Since 1940, 79 seats in Congress have shifted from the older ...
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 ...
Americans Best Brits on Lifespan, But Suffer More Illness
By Katie Drummond - AOL News(Nov. 4) -- Americans can expect to outlive their British peers, but not without suffering chronic ailments to a greater extent than those living across the Atlantic. A collaborative effort between U.S.-based Rand Corp and Britain's Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) has reached that conclusion, after evaluating data on Americans and Brits aged 50 and older. "If you get sick at older ages, you will die sooner in England than in the United States," James Smith, who co-authored the study, told Reuters. How did researchers draw their country-vs.-country conclusions? They analyzed a massive ...
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