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Census workers are using snowmobiles, airplanes, all-terrain vehicles — even lobster boats — to visit the most far-flung, hidden-away dwellings when counting the nation's populace. Complete Story...
With the 2010 census under way, about 1 in 10 people may not participate in the population count, with many saying they see little personal benefit from the government survey or have concerns that it may be intrusive, according to a poll released Tuesday.
Some common problems when filling out U.S. census forms, which arrive by mail beginning Monday:
Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census are enlisting a new corps of foot-soldiers in their battle to reach that hard-to-count demographic: tech-savvy, smart-phone-toting young people.
A Georgia man accused of killing two people used an innovative legal strategy Monday in an attempt to get his murder charges dismissed. Call it the Census defense.
With the 2010 population count looming, the government provided new assurances Thursday that information Americans fill out on their census forms will be kept confidential and not be used for law enforcement.
It was 5 p.m. in the lobby of the library of Metropolitan State University, and Clara Ware was sitting behind a table covered with pens, notepads and buttons with the Census 2010 logo, calling out like a sideshow barker.
Identify yourself as being of "Hispanic, Latino or Spanish origin" on the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire, and you will get to be more specific about your ancestry, such as Mexican-American, Cuban or Puerto Rican.
The head of the Census Bureau is defending the agency's decision to spend $300 million to promote the national head count, saying paid advertising will save money by encouraging more people to mail in their forms.
From pole to pole, surface to frigid depths, researchers have discovered thousands of new ocean creatures in a decade-long effort now nearing completion, and there may still be several times more strange creatures to be found, leaders of the Census of Marine Life reported Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Will all Cuban mules please stand up? Or at least raise a hoof or two. The communist government says it is facing a major mule deficit and has commissioned a census of the beasts of burden to determine how bad the problem is.
The 2010 population count is just a month away, and President Barack Obama is asking U.S. residents to fill out their census forms.
Nearly 1 1/2 years after Hurricane Ike battered Galveston, this southeast Texas island community fears the natural disaster could land another harsh blow.
Were those pricey Super Bowl ads a waste? Maybe not, but paying $3 million to census employees who didn't do any work surely was.
Republican groups are raising money under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau, leaving the government's people-counters worried that a flurry of misleading letters could make some Americans less likely to respond to the real thing.
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.
China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste.
Faced with record levels of red ink into the foreseeable future, Washington is spending $2.5 million to create buzz for the census — by advertising during the Super Bowl.
Police cars and large white vans rumbled down the unpaved road toward the ramshackle houses, where illegal immigrants are among hundreds living in a slapdash neighborhood, or colonia, called San Carlos.
The government is fumbling some efforts to assure immigrants that U.S. census data won't be used against them, including gaps in outreach and foreign language guides that refer to the decennial count as an investigation.
The Republican Party is seeking input and money from GOP voters — seemingly under the guise of the U.S. Census Bureau.
The U.S. Census Bureau is launching its 2010 count of the nation's residents in a remote Alaska village. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves flew to Noorvik in northwest Alaska on Monday to count the first household in the Inupiat Eskimo community of 650. Groves and other officials were taken to the village school by sled dog teams driven by schoolchildren; he even took a brief stint at the reins.
Census time heightens privacy concernsThe standard 2010 Census form, be sent to virtually every American household, asks about sex, race, age, phone number, and address.
Census Race Choices Upset ManySACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Questions about race on the 2010 U.S. Census form are offending and confusing people in both the Latino and African American communities.
IRS Targets U.S. Citizens Living AbroadBack in 2004, the Census Department tried to make a head count of Americans living in Kuwait, Mexico, and France. They gave their effort the catchy name of the "Overseas Enumeration Test." Perhaps that's why the program was such a colossal failure.
Census of the HomelessHow does the Census Bureau account for homeless people?
5 things you need to know about: the census There are about 309 million Americans, but who's counting? Oh wait, the U.S. Census Bureau is counting. Not sure what to make of all this census stuff? Read on as we count the ways: The forms. First, you received a l
Why are college students so hard to count in the Census?Until he took a statistics class on it this spring, Christian Reyes barely knew what the U.S. Census was, much less that he has a legal obligation to return a completed form in Pittsburgh, where he is a freshman at Carnegie Mellon University.
Poll finds stubborn suspicion of census - Washington TimesIn age of identity theft and doubts about BIG government, Americans are wary of the Census form.
Census FearIn the age of identity theft, folks are skittish about the Census 2010 form. Plus, Mark Levin wants to sue nancy Pelosi and President Obama.
How to Annoy Glenn Beck in Five Minutes or LessWant to annoy Fox News' Glenn Beck in five minutes or less while simultaneously making sure your community gets its fair share of federal money? Fill out and return the 2010 U.S. Census questionnaire when it arrives in your mailbox.
Mayor says, 'Take 10' minutes" (If you can read English)According to the article the mayor of YORK, NE, has encouraged people to complete their 2010 Census Form.
More people are challenging the intrusiveness of the Census questionsLibertarian Party Chairman William Redpath as saying, "The Libertarian Party believes that the federal government's current census procedures are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and too expensive.
So as a follow up to my popular (though tangent-spuring posting) I thought I'd follow it up with the fact that it did arrive last night.
Queer The Census!They're here. By their own description, they're queer. And a gay advocacy group wants the U.S. Census Bureau to ask them about it.
Census Bureau Over Budget as Heavy Counting Gets Under WayThe U.S. Census is well into conducting its constitutionally mandated 2010 count but the exercise is already running over budget.
Want to Get Paid for Counting? Census Is Hiring Despite a massive hiring push, the Census Bureau still hasn't reached recruiting goals in certain pockets of the country. The agency is particularly short on workers who can speak Spanish and other languages spoken in immigrant communities.
How much did census reminder letter cost?TAMPA, FL -- This past week, the U.S. Census Bureau began mailing out 120 million letters to people around the country.
Arizona Can't Have A Spanish Census Banner Flying Prescott, Arizona couldn't handle it. It was just too much for the Tom Tancredo-minded town folk.
Census Jobs Tough to Fill U.S. Struggles to Hire Thousands of Bilingual Workers Needed for Accurate CountThe U.S. Census Bureau is scouring Texas for an oddly elusive worker: the Spanish-speaking American who qualifies for the job.
Many Muslims, fearing backlash, may avoid first Census count since 9/11The millions of blue forms being mailed this month in the first census count since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, do not ask about religion[,b]ut the idea of answering any questions posed by the government makes some Muslims uneasy[.]
2010 Census: The decennial snooping on our neighbors to get free stuffLike many of you, I got that letter in the mail this week advising me that within a week there will be a another letter in the mail, this one with a 2010 Census form. In the first place, what an incredible waste of time, money, paper and ink. Just send the darned form!
So I'm going the mail that I received last night... bill...bill...bill...spam...spam...local sales advertisement... and then stumbled upon something that made me take note "US Census Department".
Accused Ga. killer uses creative legal argument ATLANTA (AP) -- A Georgia man accused of killing two people is trying to get his murder charges dismissed by using the Census defense.
Foreclosures an added challenge for censusThe 2010 Census presents an unprecedented challenge for census takers: Counting people where they live even as the economy is uprooting them from their homes in record numbers.
Census jobs unfilled in some placesThe Census Bureau is having trouble finding qualified temporary workers in some neighborhoods for the national head count despite the record number of jobless who have swelled the nationwide pool of applicants.
Bachmann Learns To Support The CensusTalking Point Memo: "Hmm, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) seems to be getting more and more supportive of the Census.
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