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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Census Correction
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 8) -- An AOL News story published Nov. 1, "2010 Census Update Reveals Possible Undercount," confused a survey that will be used to evaluate the 2010 Census with the actual population count itself. Speaking at a news conference Nov. 1, Census Director Robert Groves did not provide any measurement of undercounting in the census, as the story stated. Instead, he spoke about the evaluation tool. Estimates of any undercount or overcount in the 2010 Census will not be available until an evaluation survey is completed in 2012. ...
Census Returning $1.6 Billion to Treasury
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 10) -- Thanks to a better-than-expected response rate, lots of advertising and a little luck, the Commerce Department announced today that it is returning to the Treasury $1.6 billion in savings from the 2010 Census. Planning for the 2010 Census began about 12 years ago, and $14.7 billion was budgeted for the entire life cycle of the 2010 Census. The refund represents 22 percent of the Census Bureau's $7.4 billion budget for 2010. Even with those savings, it will still be the most expensive census ever because of a larger, more diverse and harder-to-count population. The ...
Census Countdown: 3 Days Left to Be Counted
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (July 28) -- You have just three more days to be counted in the 2010 census if you think you were overlooked in the once-a-decade population survey. Friday is the last day to call the U.S. Census Bureau's toll-free phone line if you never got a form or a visit from a government enumerator. More than 130,000 phone interviews have been conducted over the past three months, but the line will be shut off on July 30 to give the bureau enough time to process the data by the Dec. 31 deadline. Census Director Robert Groves encourages all residents who doubt they had been counted to call ...
Roland Burris Defends ACORN, Says 'Fox Sting' and 'Agendas' to Blame
By Patricia Murphy - Politics DailyDefending ACORN on Capitol Hill these days is a lonely, usually fruitless task, but Sen. Roland Burris (D-Ill.) took on the director of the U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday over his decision to cut the bureau's ties with the Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now (ACORN) without a formal review or inquiry. Dr. Robert Groves, the Census director, had ended the relationship after ACORN employees were secretly filmed giving advice to undercover filmmakers, disguised as a prostitute and a pimp, about how to fraudulently fill out tax forms. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) praised Groves at a ...
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