If you fancy retirement, you won’t find much company around Washington. More than one in five people in the region who are 65 or older are still plugging away at their jobs or looking for work, well above the national average, according to Census Bureau statistics. And although the numbers have shot up since the recession, it’s not all about the money. Read full article > >
A new Census Bureau measure denotes households pulled out of poverty by benefits or closer to it by certain expenses, and a count suggests they are far more numerous than previously understood.
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‘Near Poor’: Not Quite in Poverty, but Still Struggling
The Census Bureau on Monday released a new, comprehensive poverty measure that painted an even more dismal picture of the nation’s economic landscape than the official measure from two months ago. The report found that 49.1 million Americans — 16 percent of the population — lived in poverty in 2010, which is higher than the 46.2 million Americans found to live in poverty by the official measure released in September . Read full article > >
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Census Bureau measures more Americans living in poverty
The Census Bureau will release a long-promised alternate measure meant to do a better job of counting the resources of the needy and bills they have to pay.
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Bleak Portrait of Poverty Is Off the Mark, Experts Say
In a grim sign of the enduring nature of the economic slump, a new report shows that despite some improvement in the economy, household incomes have lagged.
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Recession Officially Over, U.S. Incomes Kept Falling
Workers are sleeping on the job at the U.S. Census Bureau and the agency is asking employees to stop napping in public areas of its Maryland headquarters. A memo sent Tuesday said officials are fielding an increased number of complaints about colleagues “sleeping in public areas.” “While at work, our behavior sends a powerful message to our customers, our colleagues and the taxpayers about who we are and what we value,” Ted A. Johnson, the bureau’s acting human resources director, said in the memo. Read full article > >
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Census workers caught sleeping on the job
A 1.4 percentage point annual increase in New York’s poverty rate appeared to be the largest yearly jump in nearly two decades.
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One in Five New York City Residents Living in Poverty
The Census Bureau’s poverty report is sure to be cited in coming months as lawmakers make difficult decisions about how to balance the competing goals of cutting deficits and preserving safety nets.
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Poor Are Still Getting Poorer, but Downturn’s Punch Varies, Census Data Show
Hispanics surpassed blacks in 2010 to become the second-largest racial or ethnic group of young adults in America’s colleges, according to a new analysis of Census Bureau data. The number of Hispanic college students ages 18 to 24 rose by a remarkable 24 percent in one year, to 1.8 million, according to a report released Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center . The federal Current Population Survey found 7.7 million white college students in that age group, 1.7 million black students and 800,000 Asian Americans. Read full article > >
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Hispanics surpass blacks in college enrollment
The number of people in long-lasting marriages increased over the past decade as divorce rates leveled off and life expectancies rose, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday. More than half of all currently married couples — 55 percent — have been together at least 15 years, and 35 percent have marked their 25th anniversaries. Six percent have been married more than 50 years. The number of couples reaching their silver and golden anniversaries is 1 to 2 percentage points higher than in 1996, census demographers reported. Read full article > >
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Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports
The number of people in long-lasting marriages increased over the past decade as divorce rates leveled off and life expectancies rose, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday. More than half of all currently married couples — 55 percent — have been together at least 15 years, and 35 percent have marked their 25th anniversaries. Six percent have been married more than 50 years. The number of couples reaching their silver and golden anniversaries is 1 to 2 percentage points higher than in 1996, census demographers reported. Read full article > >
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Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports
Each decade after tabulating the decennial census, the U.S. Census Bureau calculates the exact geographic mean center of the country’s population. No, really. According to government demographers, the center is determined “as the place where an imaginary, flat, weightless and rigid map of the United States would balance perfectly if all 308,745,538 residents counted in the 2010 Census were of identical weight.” Read full article > >
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Officials move physical center of the U.S. population farther west
Central Park’s population has jumped, according to the Census Bureau, which doesn’t know who the residents are.
The percentage of the nation’s African-American population living in the South has hit its highest point in half a century, census data shows.
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Many U.S. Blacks Moving to South, Reversing Trend
Young Americans are far less white than older generations, a shift with political and social consequences.
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Minorities Show Gains in Youths, Census Finds
Poor Are Still Getting Poorer, but Downturn’s Punch Varies, Census Data Show
Thursday, September 15th, 2011Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Number of long-lasting marriages in U.S. has risen, Census Bureau reports
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011Officials move physical center of the U.S. population farther west
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