The U.S Census released updated numbers Tuesday on the number of married same-sex couples in the United States. There are currently 152,335 same-sex couples in the country that identified as married and another 440,989 that are unmarried. In Minnesota, there are 1,330 same-sex couples who have married in other states. More…
Poverty has increased substantially in Colorado and across the country, according to preliminary state Census Bureau figures released today. Roughly one in every eight Coloradans was living in poverty in 2009 and 2010, including 192,000 Coloradans who fell into poverty since 2000.
According to a study of 2010 U.S. Census data by UCLA’s Williams Institute, among large U.S. cities, Minneapolis has the fourth highest rate of same-sex couples living within its borders. Neighboring St. Paul ranked 24th and Minnesota ranked 33rd among states.
While an anti-gay-marriage initiative will be More…
According to Census Bureau data and an analysis by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, New Mexico has the fifth-highest proportion of same-sex couples among the states: 9.8 out of 1,000 households are headed by a same-sex couple.
Fifty-six percent of same-sex couples live in Santa Fe More…
The University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service this week released the results of a study on the economic security of families in Virginia. The report evaluates economic stability among residents of the state and concludes that traditional metrics for doing so are woefully inadequate. Namely, it More…
The Census Bureau announced the results of the decennial process of reapportioning congressional districts by state Tuesday morning, and Republicans stand to gain from the results based on growth patterns in the South and West.
The Census apportions congressional districts every ten years, while state legislatures are generally in charge More…
The U.S. Census Bureau is expected to release the preliminary results of the 2010 census Tuesday morning and the result could mean a loss of one seat in the Michigan Congressional delegation.
The number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives if based on population size, but Michigan has More…
The enumerators — the door-to-door Census takers — have long since finished. The final quality assurance representatives, technology specialists, accountants and phone operators are packing up. Contracts are expiring for workers on retainer. Thus, with a whisper, the decennial United States Census is ending.
[Economy1] Washington completes this Constitutionally required More…
Matt Yglesias posts a good chart of the changing poverty demographics over the past forty years:
Private employers added just 1,420 jobs per state in July — not nearly enough to make up for job losses in the government, 50,000 of which were local-government layoffs. Unemployment remains high, at 9.5 percent, and many economists expect it to track higher in the fall. Calculated Risk More…
rss