California Gov. Jerry Brown made an appearance in Santa Clara this week as the Texas-based Dell computer company broke ground for a new research and development center. The symbolism was unmistakable.
With California’s economy stuck in a recessionary trough, critics have been drawing contrasts with Texas, its economic, cultural and political rival to the east, so Dell’s project is an anecdotal antidote.
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By:
Dale McFeatters
06/28/11 9:55 PM
The U.S. Census Bureau has looked ahead to 2050 and seen a much changed landscape among the world’s most populous countries.For whatever that honor is worth, The United States will remain the world’s third most populous country with its current population of 311 million having grown to 423 million.
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Daly City officials believe the 2010 census undercounted their population by more than 7,000, which could cost the city hundreds of thousands of dollars or more in state and federal funding.Although the census put Daly City’s population at 101,123, City Manager Patricia Martel said the actual number is closer to 108,383. Martel bases her claim on a 2010 estimate by the state Department of Finance.
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San Francisco’s black exodus is continuing at breakneck speed, and its Latino population is growing slowly as California’s soars. Meanwhile, Asians now make up fully one-third of The City’s population, gaining steadily on the non-Hispanic white population.
Click on the photo to the right to see more census data.
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For those of us who are demographic buffs, Christmas came four days early when Census Bureau director Robert Groves announced on Tuesday the first results of the 2010 census and the reapportionment of House seats (and therefore electoral votes) among the states. The resident population of the United States, he told us in a webcast, was 308,745,538.
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"Years before the statue was built," Barack Obama began the peroration of his June 30 speech on immigration, Emma Lazarus "imagined what it could mean."
Actually, the French sculptor Bartholdi was at work on the Statue of Liberty before Lazarus published her famous "give me your tired" poem in 1883. (The statue was assembled in New York Harbor two years later and dedicated in 1886.)
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Temporary Census workers may have violated the law by disclosing resident information to websites to track down respondents, according to a new report from the Commerce Departments Office of Inspector General.
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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Now that the U.S. Census Bureau has terminated its relationship with ACORN, will Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley do the same and stop promoting the Baltimore ACORN office as an honest source of counseling for people facing forceclosure?
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