If that end-of-the-year bonus didn’t send your household earnings well north of half a million dollars, you can’t count yourself among the elite 1 percent of Washington’s high earners. It took a household income of almost $520,000 to make it into the top tier in the Washington region, according to a new analysis of census data. Some high earners might ask: What recession? In 2007, the cutoff point for the top 1 percent was $517,000. Read full article > >

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What it takes to be a 1 percenter in the Washington area

I n the 15 states that are likely to decide who controls the White House and the Senate in 2013, Hispanic voters will represent the margin of victory. For the Republican Party, the stakes could not be greater. Just eight years after the party’s successful effort to woo Hispanic voters in 2004 , this community — the fastest-growing group in the United States, according to census data — has drifted away . Read full article > >

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Four ways Republicans can win Hispanics back

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 > >

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Retire? Not if Washingtonians can help it

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

Catch Rick Perry on a good day and I bet he could name the three government agencies he would axe. But I bet he couldn’t tell you how he would do it. After all, the Commerce Department contains the Census Bureau. And you can’t just get rid of the Census. The Constitution is pretty clear on that point. And you probably don’t want to get rid of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Or, to head over to the Department of Energy, is Perry really proposing to shut down the National Nuclear Security Administration? Or Los Alamos National Laboratory? Read full article > >

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The gaffe behind Perry’s gaffe

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

WASHINGTON — The wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record, worsened by a prolonged economic downturn that has wiped out job opportunities for young adults and saddled them with housing and college debt. The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday. Read full article > >

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Census data show wealth of older Americans is 47 times that of young adults, widest gap ever

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

NEW YORK — In a cramped office on the 19th floor of Two United Nations, Danan Gu, a nerdy population analyst, found 7 million children in China who didn’t officially exist. They materialized in front of him, on a desktop computer. Gu pulled up a chart from China’s 2000 census, showing children age 1 and under. Then he clicked on a Ministry of Education report that recorded students in the same age group about 10 years later. Read full article > >

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Gov. Martin O’Malley’s redistricting panel released its recommendations for Maryland’s new congressional map Monday, offering a plan that could help Democrats add to their advantage in the state by imperiling the reelection hopes of Rep. Roscoe G. Bartlett (R). The advisory committee was tasked with drawing a map that reflects the results of the 2010 Census, moving Marylanders across lines to ensure that the state’s eight districts have roughly equal populations. The map will be posted online Tuesday, when a seven-day comment period begins. O’Malley (D) can make adjustments before presenting it to the Democratic-controlled General Assembly, which must approve it. Read full article > >

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Proposed Md. congressional map could imperil Rep. Roscoe Bartlett

Hispanics now make up the largest group of children living in poverty, the first time in U.S. history that poor white kids have been outnumbered by poor children of another race or ethnicity, according to a new study. In a report released Wednesday, the Pew Hispanic Center said that 6.1 million Hispanic children are poor, compared with 5 million non-Hispanic white children and 4.4 million black children. Pew said Hispanic poverty numbers have soared because of the impact of the recession on the growing number of Latinos. Read full article > >

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Hispanic kids the largest group of children living in poverty

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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According to an analysis of census figures, the poverty rate in Greenwood, S.C., more than doubled to 24 percent from 2007 to 2010, the largest increase in the nation.

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More than one in three young families with children were living in poverty last year, according to an analysis of census data.

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2010 Data Show Surge In Poor Young Families

The nation’s poverty rate spiked to 15.1 percent in 2010, the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported on Tuesday, providing vivid new evidence about the nation’s inability to escape the lingering effects of the recession. About 46.2 million Americans lived in poverty last year, marking an increase of 2.6 million over 2009 and the fourth consecutive annual increase in poverty. Read full article > >

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U.S. poverty rate reaches 15.1 percent