‘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. [...]
2010 Census Cautions From BBB
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 25th, 2009
With the U.S. Census process beginning, the Better business Bureau (BBB) advises people to be cooperative, but cautious, so as not to become a victim of fraud or identity theft. The first phase of the 2010 U.S. Census is under way, as workers have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country. [...]
Reid wants illegals counted in the Census
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 15th, 2009
Senator David Vitter has tried to attach an amendment to the Commerce, Justice, and Science appropriation for FY2010 to clarify that the Census should restrict its counts to people in the US legally. The Hill reports that Vitter accuses Harry Reid of attempting to block a vote on the amendment, which might have serious consequences [...]
Hispanics mull boycotting 2010 census
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 12th, 2009
Angered by President Obama’s lack of success in legalizing illegal immigrants, some Hispanic activists are urging all Hispanics to boycott the 2010 census as a sign of displeasure.
Other groups have asked the federal government to suspend immigration raids while census takers are in the field, hoping that will make illegal immigrants more likely to [...]
Census May Have Hired Violent Criminals to Canvass Your Home
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on October 8th, 2009
A Senate Subcommittee hearing today revealed that nearly 36,000 Census Bureau employees were hired despite the fact that the fingerprint component of their criminal record checks was botched. Despite additional name checks recommended by the FBI, the GAO said that it was possible that more than 200 employees hired by the Census Bureau had criminal [...]
Update: Census Bureau Severs Ties W/ACORN
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on September 11th, 2009
http://michellemalkin.cachefly.net/michellemalkin.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/CensusACORN-1.pdf
Takeaway quotes from letter: “Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN’s affiliation with 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has ineed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census [...]
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