HOUSING ON THE MEND Home prices continue to inch up the stairs from the basement. In August, for the third month in a ...
Minority lawmakers oppose effort to ask about citizenship status in 2010 census A coalition of black, Latino and Asian lawmakers on Thursday expressed ...
Census director: Foreclosures will add challenges, costs to next year's decennial census The Census Bureau director says foreclosures will make it tougher and more expensive to get an accurate count of families next year. Director Robert Groves said Tuesday in Los Angeles ...
Study: City funds and manpower to promote 2010 head count lag levels in previous census With the 2010 census looming, major U.S. cities whose residents are at high risk of being missed are struggling with a shortage of money and manpower to ...
Commerce Department rules out seeking halt to immigration raids to try to improve census count With the 2010 census six months away, the Commerce Department said Thursday it won't seek a halt to immigration raids as it did in the previous census ...
AlphaNinja - The US Census released second quarter 2009 tax data today. It's not pretty.Overall, individual income taxes dropped the most, falling over 27% from the previous year. Sales taxes - less dependent on the volatile top earners than income taxes - ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Before the U.S. recession delivered a one-two punch to state and local economies, most cities and states experienced five years of rapid revenue and spending growth, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report. From 2002 to 2007, state and ...
Most of us will be out of luck If we’re right about where the price of gold is headed, the general public will someday clamor to buy all things gold. While gold stocks will be where the real leverage is, the rush ...
Teresa Ocampo is questioned about the upcoming U.S. Census at her home in Long Beach, Calif. on Aug. 24, 2009. For the first time, the decennial census will be distributed in two languages to 13.5 million households in predominantly Spanish-speaking neighborhoods. Latino ...
Latinos hope the use of bilingual census forms will aid the 2010 count despite obstacles When Teresa Ocampo opens her census questionnaire, she won't have to worry about navigating another document in English. The 40-year old housewife who only speaks basic English ...
Census: Hanging death first since 1998 in which employee may have been targeted based on job Violence against census employees is rare, the Census Bureau said Thursday, but it nevertheless trains its canvassers in how to deal with angry or hostile citizens. ...
COLLEGE: RISING COSTS, DIMINISHING RETURNS This hasn't been a good decade so far for young college grads. Full-time workers ages 25 to 34 with only bachelor's degrees saw a sharp 11% decline in their real earnings between the end of the tech ...
