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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Greenwood, S.C., Had Steepest Economic Decline in U.S.

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

A Census Bureau report also found that median household incomes declined by 2.3 percent in 2010, in a sign of the toll the economic slump has taken.

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Portion of Americans Living in Poverty Rises to Highest Level Since 1993

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 recession pushed more people in the Washington area into living with relatives and friends, according to new census figures showing a sharp rise in families who have taken in adult children, siblings, parents and roommates. Almost 1.2 million of the region’s 6 million residents were living with extended family members and friends last year, a 33 percent rise over the past decade. Nationwide, according to recently released 2010 Census statistics, at least 54 million people are in a similar spot. Read full article > >

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Recession pushes more in D.C. area to live with relatives

Redistricting may be one of liberals’ biggest fears, but will it really be that bad for them? Maybe not, it turns out: Republicans made so many national and statehouse gains in 2010 that 2012 redistricting-a result of the 2010 Census-may not help them…

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Redistricting May Not Help GOP

Proposed maps for Congressional and legislative districts have proved that sitting politicians were right to worry.

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Redistricting by Citizens Has Test in California

A long-running obsession of Washington’s fraternity of government management gurus is how to overhaul the Commerce Department, the sprawling agency responsible for, among other things, the census, telecommunications, fisheries and the weather. Shut it down, some say, and divide its parts among other Cabinet departments. Spin off the U.S. Census Bureau . Move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service over to the Interior Department . On Thursday, President Obama will receive the results of a six-month study on how to close, merge or recast at least some of the 12 federal export and trade offices run by Commerce or the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative , according to administration officials familiar with the study. Officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Read full article > >

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Trade offices targeted in reorganization plan

Study is based on decades of Census data and a survey of about 55,000 adults in 2009.

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Study Finds Women Slower to Wed and Divorce Easing

Across the country, state legislatures are debating redistricting right now. It’s a once-a-decade proposition: the opportunity and obligation to redraw political district lines to reflect the latest census.

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Why redistricting reform matters to you

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

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