United States Census Bureau

Friday, November 6, 2009, 12:11pm CST Census Bureau's Chicago center needs 70,000 workers The U.S. Census Bureau's Chicago center said that it needs to hire about 70,000 workers in the coming weeks to work for the 2010 census in...

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Latest Political & State Legislature News, Blogs and Articles Census vote defeat will cost Louisiana a House seat, David Vitter says November 05, 2009, 7:14PM The Senate on Thursday killed Sen. David Vitter's bid to require the 2010...

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The Senate voted Thursday to block a Republican attempt to require the Census Bureau to ask people for their citizenship status during next year's decennial census. Lawmakers voted 60 to 39 to effectively kill an amendment by Sens. David...

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...number of people living in each state, regardless of whether they are citizens. A separate survey already collects citizenship data. Census data is also used to distribute billions of dollars in federal aid. The current plan is to...

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...a subsidiary of ICF International, were each recently awarded indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract agreements with the U.S. Census Bureau. The five- year contracts have a ceiling of $140 million. ICF and ICF Macro will...

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...concluded that the Patriot Act doesn't give law-enforcement officials the power to look at how people fill out their census forms, U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said yesterday. An official announcement of the decision could be...

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District officials announced an outreach effort Thursday aimed at improving the city's poor response rate in the Census and securing its claim on billions of federal dollars. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty (D) predicted record participation in the...

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...as married, the Census Bureau said in a report. And in the American Community Survey in 2008 -- the bureau's annual survey as opposed to its once-a-decade national head count -- nearly 150,000 same-sex couples identified one partner...

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...are transmitted to the recipient. Otherwise, it is considered private information; see Privacy policy. Rep. Jason Chaffetz wants the Census Bureau to certify in writing that it is sure that enumerators hired to go door-to-door next year do...

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Metro Atlanta / State News 5:48 p.m. Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Census Bureau releases statistical snapshots of metro towns The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday released the latest version of the American Community Survey demographic...

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