My Race Is American
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 9th, 2010
My race is “American”
By Michelle Malkin • March 9, 2010 10:47 AM
Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics and urging you to do the same:
Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and ethnicity, which are clearly illegitimate and none of [...]
The Census Is Getting Personal
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 28th, 2010
The Census Is Getting Personal
Seattle fortune cookies hold census message
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 23rd, 2010
By Lornet Turnball
DEAN RUTZ / THE SEATTLE TIMES
Sporting caps promoting the U.S. census, visitors to Thursday’s fortune-cookie rollout watch the cookies being made, then have a taste. Tsue Chong Co. is inserting five different census messages into 2 million cookies
Next time you crack open a fortune cookie, check the flip side. The federal government may [...]
Audit finds US census preparations wasted millions
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 16th, 2010
Census preparations wasted millions as temps collected checks for excessive travel, training
Hope Yen, Associated Press Writer, On Tuesday February 16, 2010, 9:17 am EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Census Bureau wasted millions of dollars in preparation for its 2010 population count, including thousands of temporary employees who picked up $300 checks without performing work and [...]
Change in Census Bureau data on prison population could reshape political map
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 12th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) — Prisoners will soon be bigger players in those high-stakes redistricting fights, even if unwittingly, thanks to a change in federal policy governing how they’re to be counted in the 2010 census.
Prison populations have historically been included in national headcounts, but now Census officials will make data on inmate populations available to states [...]
‘Negro’ Race Choice On Census Form Sparks Outrage
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 7th, 2010
Question #9 Causes Uproar, Asks For Citizens To Pick ‘Black,’ ‘African American’ Or ‘Negro’ From Same Box Reporting
Christine Sloan NEW YORK (CBS) ―
The word “negro” is now featured on an official U.S. document and now many are questioning if the Census Bureau is being insensitive.
It’s a word that many African Americans [...]
Census in schools program unveiled at Nova elementary
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 5th, 2010
Today’s homework is: Talk up the Census
By Georgia East, Staff Writer
December 16, 2009
Ariel Civelek was just a baby in the last U.S. Census, but this time around, the 11-year-old can tell her family how important it is to be counted.
Civelek was among hundreds of students at Nova Blanche Forman Elementary School who got an [...]
Census 2010: To Cost Millions Of Tax Payer Dollars!
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 4th, 2010
UNBELIEVABLE!
By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY
Anyone who doesn’t know there is a Census this year will know after Monday.
The government’s unprecedented $340 million promotional blitz of the 2010 Census launches Monday with the debut of the Census Portrait of America Road Tour in New York City’s Times Square.
A 46-foot trailer, to be unveiled [...]
Census Bureau kicks off once-a-decade head count
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on January 4th, 2010
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Census Bureau kicks off its $300 million campaign Monday to prod, coax and cajole the nation’s more than 300 million residents to fill out their once-a-decade census forms.
The bureau will mail out the 10-question forms to about 120 million households in March.
On Monday, Census Director Robert Groves starts the nationwide campaign [...]
Redistricting and The Census
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on November 22nd, 2009
One of the most important issues regarding our Constitutional requirement of providing data for the census is how it affects our voting districts. In the 1964 case of Reynolds v. Sims, the United States Supreme Court determined that the general basis of apportionment should be “one person, one vote.” Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. [...]
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