Tag: Census

The May jobs number is out, and at first blush it looks good. The economy added 431,000 jobs in May and the unemployment rate...

Roughly 70 percent of households in Colorado have mailed back census forms with basic demographic data. That's 2 percentage points below the national average,...

The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force is aiming to "queer the census" by handing out stickers Americans can paste onto the outside of...

The U.S. Census Bureau kicked off its 2010 Census "Tribal Road Tour" this week with a Native American ceremony blessing the Bureau van. The ceremony took place beside the Denver Art Museum's "Wheel" exhibit, a piece inspired by Native American architecture and the Big Horn medicine wheel in Wyoming.

DENVER-- To the strains of the West High symphony and choir and to the shouts of the Thomas Jefferson High cheerleading squad, advocates for the 2010 Census rallied metro-area residents at a kickoff celebration for the nation's coming coast-to-coast constitutionally mandated once-per-decade body counting operation. The celebration was held at Denver Inner City Parish, an educational nonprofit in the heart of the city. The speaker roster and content of the talks made it clear that officials were making certain in particular to court members of Denver's "hard to reach" Latino population.

Beginning today, the U.S. Census Bureau will launch community operations in the Denver with what they are calling a "Spirit of Community Celebration," featuring...

With the nomination of Latina Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court there are a myriad of perspectives on what the pick symbolizes for the political future of the Latino community as a whole.

In just one short year, the U.S. Census Bureau will begin the momentous task of counting every single person in the United States. But civil rights advocates are worried that many Latinos and immigrants will not be tallied due to distrust and fear sparked by increased immigration enforcement in the last 10 years. Now, an unprecedented media campaign is being launched in Colorado and other states to encourage Latinos to be counted.

Adding to the political intrigue surrounding Commerce secretary-nominee Judd Gregg's sudden resignation is a new partisan fight over the 2010 census. How that battle shapes up could affect Republican electoral prospects for many years to come with a fast-growing Latino voter base.

And then there was none. Sen. Judd Gregg withdrew his name Thursday from the apparently haunted cabinet position at the Commerce Dept. See the state ethics probe that derailed his predecessor nominee Bill Richardson. Gregg cited the coming decennial U.S. Census, as one example, of irreconcilable disagreement with President Barack Obama. The census? Huh? The brewing oversight fight on the 2010 national head count promises high political drama. You think Dick Wadhams is just sticking around here for the fresh mountain air?