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Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

Prominent demographers are asking the U.S. Census Bureau to abandon a controversial method for protecting survey and census participants’ confidentiality

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Census lawsuit tossed based on definition of 'whereby'

A federal judge has tossed out a public records lawsuit on the 2020 census based on the interpretation of one obscure word: “whereby.”

The Independent UK

What Are Building Permits? Definition & Economic Importance

What Are Building Permits?Building permits are approvals for construction of new and existing privately owned homes. The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) release a monthly report on building permits for new homes, which investors and analysts focus ...

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More states are forgoing extra federal food aid

More than 18 million Americans sometimes didn’t have enough to eat last month, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. More than 5 million people often went hungry.

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Sick days and vacations hit businesses this summer

Businesses already struggling with the pandemic labor shortage may not be able to keep up this summer.

Axios

Who turned out in the 2018 midterm elections?

Increases in younger and college educated voters drove up turnout in 2018.

USAFacts

What Are Housing Starts? Definition and Economic Importance

What Are Housing Starts?Housing starts are a monthly measure of the construction of new, privately owned homes across the U.S. They are part of a report on surveys conducted and compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to highlight housing ...

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Trump administration memo shows citizenship question connected with census

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration tried to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census that would benefit Republicans, despite initial concerns within the administration that it wasn’t legal, according to a new trove of documents released by Congress on Wednesday.

Tribune News Service

Secret memo links citizenship question to apportionment

Some Trump administration officials had initial doubts that it was legal to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census but pressed forward and attempted to add it anyways

The Independent UK

Bill attempts to prevent political meddling in US head count

A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause and new questions to a census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation that attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation’s head count that took place during the Trump…

The Independent UK

How much child support do parents actually receive?

Fifty-four percent of parents who were owed child support did not receive the full amount in 2017

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Supreme Court ruling completes redistricting for 2022 elections

Welcome to the Wednesday, July 6, Brew.

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How many Americans voted in 2020?

Voter turnout surged in 2020 with increases in mail-in and early voting.

USAFacts

Arizona county had largest white, Black, Hispanic growth

Metro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county

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A federal law requires translated voting ballots, but not in Arabic or Haitian Creole

The Voting Rights Act requires some states and local areas to offer election materials in more than just English. But the support for voters is limited to Spanish, Asian and Native American languages.

Tribune News Service

Big, boxy apartment buildings are multiplying faster than ever

Amid the materials shortages, price hikes and other craziness of the housing market last year, something remarkable happened. U.S. builders completed more apartments in large multi-unit buildings than ever before.

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The Biden Administration Considers Whether Hispanic/Latino Should Be A Racial, Not Ethnic, Classification

The AP reports that the Biden administration is considering changes to official OMB racial and ethnic classifications. The most prominent proposals are to change the Hispanic/Latino category from an ethnic to a racial category, and to add a new MENA (Middle Eastern and North African) category. I will write about…

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What Are Business Inventories? Definition and Importance

What Are Business Inventories?Business inventories are an economic indicator that focuses on the total of inventories at each of the three stages of production: manufacturing, wholesale, and retail. The report on business inventories also includes business sales, which are the total of sales at ...

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The Independent UK

Feds taking first steps toward revising race, ethnic terms

The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications on census and survey forms for the first time in a quarter century following calls for better categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering

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Democrats, GOP take contrasting views on LGBTQ survey bill

An effort to be more inclusive or attempted intrusion by the federal government

The Independent UK

Census wants to know how to ask about sexuality and gender

Sexual orientation and gender identity

The Street

What Are Retail Sales? Definition and Examples

What Are Retail Sales?Retail sales are an important monthly indicator of the U.S. economy, helping to gauge how much consumers are spending on items such as cars, clothes, food, mobile phones, computers, and gasoline. It’s also an indicator of how fast consumer prices might be rising. As ...

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Editorial: What the census undercount did to Florida’s clout and cash

A lot of Floridians went missing in the 2020 census, which is costing the Sunshine State at least one seat in Congress and untold billions of federal dollars. About 750,600 Floridians were not counted in 2020, according to a new Census Bureau analysis. That’s a lot of missing people —…

The Independent UK

Austin is largest US city to challenge 2020 census numbers

One of the most booming cities in the U.S. over the past decade thinks that it grew even bigger than the U.S. Census Bureau says it did

Axios

Cities in Arizona, Texas and Florida lead population boom

The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and rising power centers.

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