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Since 1993, the Census Bureau has made available detailed data about federal government expenditures in its Consolidated Federal Funds Report (CFFR). The 2012 report will be the last one. Through the CFFR website, the public had access to such data as federal expenditures made at the county level for programs such as Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare as well as for more obscure federal spending programs. How much did the federal government send to Autauga County in Alabama for a hazardous materials training program? That data was available, but now it is concealed. The CFFR states: The U.S. Census Bureau...

[Article featured link in an email newsletter by the US Census Bureau, Census Information Center, Jan Figart] Millions of African Americans live in communities that lack access to good jobs and good schools and suffer from high crime rates. African American adults are about twice as likely to be unemployed as whites, black students lag their white peers in educational attainment and achievement, and African American communities tend to have higher than average crime rates. These issues have been persistent problems. Jobs are essential to improving African American communities. Increased employment would help people in these communities lift themselves out...

New Yorkers can be forgiven for shock at the newspaper headlines last week informing them that millions more of them were “near poor” or “low income.” They might relax a bit on learning that the “root cause” is simply new definition of poverty from the Census Bureau. Indeed, under the Census definition, a family in New York City is “near poor” if it has full medical insurance and an annual income below $77,000. (In Oakland, Calif., the figure is $88,000!) The Census report actually put nearly half the US population as “low income” — and news stories typically implied the...

They drive cars, but seldom new ones. They earn paychecks, but not big ones. Many own homes. Most pay taxes. Half are married, and nearly half live in the suburbs. None are poor, but many describe themselves as barely scraping by. snipShe has one BlackBerry and two cars (both Buicks from the 1990s), and a $230,000 house that she, her husband and two daughters will move into next week.Combined, she and her husband, a janitor, make about $51,000 a year, more than 200 percent of the official poverty line. But they lose about a fifth to taxes, medical care and...

The Census Bureau admitted Tuesday that it had “artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples” in the United States, initially reporting a number that was about 40 percent higher than what it now believes is accurate. The original data published by the 2010 Census set the number of same-sex households in the U.S. in 2010 at 901,997, including 349,377 same-sex married couple households and 552,620 same-sex unmarried partner households. But the Census Bureau said in a Tuesday conference call with reporters that it has revised these numbers downward “because Census Bureau staff discovered an inconsistency in the responses in the...

The first few requests were tolerable. A Census Bureau worker would knock on John and Beverly Scott's door and ask them to fill out an American Community Survey. The McKinley Park couple would politely decline. But as the days passed, the visits became more frequent and the requests more urgent. Some evenings, the doorbell would ring at dinnertime, then again at 10 p.m. "I'm generally a nice guy. I didn't want to shut the door in her face," John Scott said. "I said, 'I'm not going to answer your questions.' She kept saying, 'You've got to, you've got to.' I...

the U.S. Census Bureau sent 140 administrators from Colorado and nine other Rocky Mountain and southwestern states to Las Vegas for several days to discuss "lessons learned" from the 2010 census that could be applied in the next census in 2020. The trip cost an estimated $100,000 in airfare, meals and hotel costs and is coming under withering criticism from a Colorado congressman. "It's impossible to argue this without saying these folks took a vacation and they took it at taxpayer expense," said Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican congressman from Colorado. "I mean I think it's the equivalent of theft,"...

James O’Keefe is at it again and this time has revealed a massive financial fraud within the Census Bureau that is costing you, the taxpayer, over an additional $1,000,000,000.00! This clip reveals James O’Keefe going undercover as a Census worker and being trained to tweak his pay card and his work hours by up to four additional hours a day. Census workers are paid $18.25 per hour. With over 600,000 workers that’s an incredible amount of fraudulent paychecks. O’Keefe captures on video the training by the crew leader on how to tweak the time cards. When he points out to...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A computer system that the Census Bureau needs to manage its door-to-door count of the U.S. population remained buggy and prone to crash a day before enumerators were set to begin their work, government officials said Friday. The bureau's Paper Based Operations Control System did not function reliably in tests and, despite hardware and software upgrades, "may not be able to perform as needed under full operational loads," the U.S. Government Accountability Office said in a report. "So far, it is not as stable as it needs to be," GAO Strategic Issues Director Robert Goldenkoff said...

A crew of midvalley census workers has fallen apart due to what several crew members described as chronic disorganization at the regional census office in Grand Junction. A district leader quit, a crew leader quit, an assistant crew leader was fired, and members say they haven’t received work for over two weeks. The local crew has apparently been replaced by a crew from Colorado Springs being housed at an Aspen hotel, even while the local workers still wait for a call about their next assignment. “This experience with the Census Bureau was three weeks in an insane asylum,” Boland fired...

Ok, now this is getting ridiculous. First of all the United States Census Bureau has budgeted 340 million dollars to advertise the 2010 census. Guess who’s going to cover this 340 million dollar ads bill. You guessed it, we are. Then the bureau blows 2.5 million dollars of US taxpayers’ to air a census commercial during the Super Bowl. Now they are planning on wasting another $3000.00 of their $340 million ads budget on fortune cookies. Yes that’s right, fortune cookies.

Despite reports last fall that the Census Bureau had severed ties with community-organizing group known as ACORN, Americans might want to think twice before opening their doors to canvassers for the 2010 Census after reading what I discovered this morning.

Only three days after being "treated" to a $2.5 million Super Bowl commercial touting the 2010 Census as a "Snapshot of America," I spotted another advertisement for the 2010 Census and took a photo of it (below).

MADERA, Calif. – For most people, describing themselves on the U.S. Census form will be as easy as checking a box: White. Black. American Indian. But it's not so simple for indigenous immigrants — the Native Americans of Mexico and Central America. They often need more than one box because their ancestry can cover multiple Census categories, and they must also overcome a significant language barrier and a mistrust of government. The Census Bureau wants to change that in the 2010 count as it tallies immigrant indigenous groups for the first time ever, hoping to get a more complete snapshot...

Every year around Christmastime, the Census Bureau releases its population estimates for each state for the 12 months ending on July 1. The numbers look dry on a sheet of paper (or on an Excel spreadsheet on your computer), but they tell some vivid stories. The more so when they reflect, as the numbers for 2008-09 do, the effects of a sharp downward shift in the nation’s economy. Given the recession, it’s not a surprise that percentage growth, at 0.86 percent, was the lowest in this decade, just a tad below the rate in 2002-03, and well below the peak...

The Vitter amendment would require the Census Bureau to ask questions about citizenship and immigration status as part of the 2010 decennial census, brining with it serious implications about a variety of issues. Census data will be used to “apportion” Congressional seats to each state. If non-citizens are used for purposes of Congressional apportionment, nine states with lower illegal immigration and lower foreign-born populations would end up losing a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, while four states would pick those seats up.The implications are that the inclusion of non-citizens for purposes of House apportionment would reduce, or dilute,...

The new head of the Census Bureau said he decided to drop ACORN as an agency partner because the bureau's link to the community organization was hurting efforts to get Americans to participate in the count. Robert M. Groves, who was confirmed in July, said in a news conference Wednesday that census officials in the Chicago office had reported difficulties enlisting other community groups because of the controversy over ACORN. The bureau is trying to hook up with 100,000 local groups, some as small as neighborhood block associations, to help spread the message that it's safe and vital to fill...

Oversight: As the Senate votes to de-fund Acorn, add pimping, tax evasion and human trafficking to voter fraud paid for with taxpayer dollars and you have an organized criminal enterprise. It's time to investigate.After Acorn workers were caught on tape in three cities allegedly abetting what they believed was a fraudulent-mortgage and sex-trafficking scheme, the Senate has voted overwhelmingly to strip the group of funding in the Transportation/Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. The amendment, offered by Nebraska Republican Sen. Mike Johanns, passed by an 83-to-7 margin and marked the third time this year that Republicans have tried to block...

Breaking News on Fox, the Census Bureau has severed all ties to ACORN. Will not be working with ACORN for the census in 2010.

Outspoken Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann says she's so worried that information from next year's national census will be abused that she will refuse to fill out anything more than the number of people in her household. In an interview Wednesday morning with The Washington Times "America's Morning News," Mrs. Bachmann, Minnesota Republican, said the questions have become "very intricate, very personal" and she also fears ACORN, the community organizing group that came under fire for its voter registration efforts last year, will be part of the Census Bureau's door-to-door information collection efforts. (SNIP) Shelly Lowe, a spokeswoman for the U.S....

Be cautious answering census questionsBureau employees won't use e-mail and won't ask for Social Security or bank numbers Thursday, June 11, 2009 By Larry Walsh, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cooperative, but cautious. That's the advice the Better Business Bureau is giving to consumers when they are contacted by members of the 2010 U.S. Census. "Most people are rightfully cautious and won't give out personal information to unsolicited phone callers or visitors," said BBB President Warren King. "However, [Census Bureau employees are] an exception to the rule." Those employees already have begun verifying the addresses of households across the country. Next, they will...

OK so I'm making a pot of coffee and somebody knocks on my door. So I open it up, and here's this chubby dude who has a badge hanging aorund his neck and quickly says "US Census Bureau". He then uses the standard "Is this XXXX YYYY Street" or whatever, and I say no. Furiously using a little handheld of some sort, he asks me "What is the address here?". So without really thinking, I reeled off my address quick, but it's kinda long and convoluted, so he starts playin with his handheld and asks "Can I get that again?"...

Stealing the Census: Why We Have To Live With It The Unconstitutional White House effort to create a permanent voting majority by allowing Rahm Emanuel to oversee the 2010 census is now irrelevant. While you were sleeping, Team "O" took over America. ACORN is the largest radical Leftist group in America today. ACORN thinks Americans have a Constitutional right to own a home, supports illegally breaking into homes , pressures Blue-Dog Democrats to back radical legislation and generally acts like above-the-law criminals. ACORN was officially tapped as a Census partner in February and the CRAPulus Spending "Stimulus" Bill contains over...

More Hispanics in College by: Bethany Stotts, March 11, 2009 The number of Hispanics enrolled in college rose 15% between 2006 and 2007. Hispanics accounted for 11.5% of the overall college student population in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Their report, released March 4, was based on the October 2007 School Enrollment Supplement (SES) to the Current Population Survey (CPS). According to the new numbers, 11.5% of college students are Hispanic, less than one percent are Asian, 13.3% are Black, and White non-Hispanic students account for 66.2% of college enrollment. (Numbers do not add up to 100 percent)....

House Republican leaders say they're set to take legal action against President Obama if he doesn't reverse his plan to oversee the 2010 census. ### House Republican leaders said Thursday they're ready to go to court against President Obama if he doesn't scuttle his plan to move the census into the purview of the Oval Office, saying it's an unconstitutional abuse of power. House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence, R-Ind., also called on Obama to withdraw his nominee to head the Commerce Department, Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, if Obama didn't have the confidence in him to lead...

Sen. Judd Gregg yesterday declined all comment on reports that the White House will strip him of his authority over the federal Census Bureau even before he becomes Secretary of Commerce. Gregg spokesman Laena Fallon said all comment would come from the White House. The Census Bureau is a key part of the Department of Commerce. The Capitol Hill publication Congressional Quarterly yesterday reported that the White House, responding to minority groups' concerns about Gregg's commitment to funding the census, has decided to have the director of the Census Bureau report directly to the White House. Minorities are traditionally concerned...

The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to stop enforcement raids during the 2010 Census so the government gets a better count of illegal immigrants. They say doing raids during the census would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers. There is precedent for this. Raids were stopped for several months before and after the 2000 census. This is an example of us backing down and making bargains with the lawbreakers yet again. But it speaks to the larger issue of why we are counting illegals. Right now, the Constitution requires the Census Bureau to...

The Obama administration acknowledged Thursday that the as-yet-unnamed Census Bureau director will have a direct line to the White House but sought to define the relationship as one in which the director would “work closely with” rather than report to President Obama’s senior staff. ***After black and Hispanic leaders raised concerns over Commerce Secretary-nominee Judd Gregg ’s commitment to core functions of the Census Bureau, a senior White House official told CQ on Wednesday that the director would report directly to the White House.*** That brought fire Thursday from Republicans, who accused the White House of attempting to gain advantage...

MY REFUSAL TO COMPLY! January 29, 2009 I received the American Community Survey about a month ago. This compulsory 28 page document published and administered by the U.S. Census Bureau clearly demonstrates the need to ask the question " Who is out-of-control in our government?". Perhaps, more importantly, "Who is in control, outside of our government?" I decided, almost immediately, not to comply. A little investigation confirmed my suspicion. Namely, there are countless others of you out there who share a common concern about this interrogative survey as well as the motives of our government. I say " our government"...

08/16/2007 By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER / Associated Press The Census Bureau wants immigration agents to suspend enforcement raids during the 2010 census so the government can better count illegal immigrants. Raids during the population count would make an already distrustful group even less likely to cooperate with government workers who are supposed to include them, the Census Bureau's second-ranking official said in an Associated Press interview. Deputy Director Preston Jay Waite said immigration enforcement officials did not conduct raids for several months before and after the 2000 census. But today's political climate is even more volatile on the issue of illegal...

- The Census Bureau inadvertently posted personal information from 302 households on a public Internet site multiple times over a five-month period, the bureau said Wednesday. The information included names, addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and family income ranges, said Ruth Cymber, the agency's director of communications. No Social Security numbers were posted, and there is no evidence that the data was misused, Cymber said. But, she added, posting the information violated bureau policies and federal law. The bureau is in the process of contacting the households, located in nine states and the District of Columbia, to offer free credit-monitoring...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking more and more like the Big Brother government that has infected Washington in recent years. The "2006 Agricultural Identification Survey," recently mailed to thousands of private landowners, is a good example. The instructions for the questionnaire say "Response to this survey is legally required by Title 7, U.S. Code." Title 7 of the U.S. Code is an enormous document, containing 105 chapters, each of which is a lengthy book unto itself. To find the specific requirement, a person would have to read all the way to Chapter 55, Section 2204g, to discover that...

Profile America — Saturday, September 16th. With school underway again, the familiar yellow school buses are plodding along roads all over the country. But each morning, a growing number of children do not climb aboard one of the buses — their parents have decided to make the extensive personal commitment to homeschool their children. Across the nation, there are close to 51-million students enrolled in classes ranging from kindergarten through 12th grade. Youngsters being educated at home number more than 1-million, or just over 2 percent of the total. About half of all homeschooled children are in grades K through...

The Census Bureau last week released its latest estimate of the U.S. poverty rate... The 2005 poverty rate of 12.6 percent...was substantially higher than the 11.1 percent level back in 1973... The results seem to suggest a prolonged failure of national policies to address poverty. However, the problem here lies less with actual living conditions than with the flawed and misleading poverty measure .... Today's poor households are more likely to have telephone and television sets than non-poor households in 1970; much more likely to have central air conditioning than the typical home of 1980, almost as likely to have...

WASHINGTON - America's growing diversity has reached nearly every state. From South Carolina's budding immigrant population to the fast-rising number of Hispanics in Arkansas, minority groups make up an increasing share of the population in every state but one, according to figures released Tuesday by the Census Bureau. "This is just an extraordinary explosion of diversity all across the United States," said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "It's diversity and immigration going hand in hand." West Virginia is the exception, with its struggling economy and little history of attracting immigrants. Frey said states...

The 1990's exodus to other states from California and from the Northeast appears to have eased since 2000, but not in metropolitan New York, a Census Bureau analysis says. The Midwest is still losing residents, and the West is gaining. The South remains a magnet for migrants, but the influx of new residents has declined steeply outside the South Atlantic region. The analysis, which is being released today, looked only at people moving from one place to another in the United States and did not take into account people arriving from other countries. Maine, Rhode Island, Maryland and Wyoming, which...

Cook County lost more people between 2000 and 2005 than any county in the nation, according to Census Bureau estimates released Thursday that also show continued gains in suburban and exurban counties across the region and portions of the nation. The new figures--based on administrative records and estimates for births, deaths and net migration--show the county lost more than 73,000 people, or 1.4 percent, since the last official count in April 2000. The largest-loser designation can partly be attributed to Cook County's massive size, because raw numbers were used for the rankings. Still, among the nation's 10 largest counties, Cook,...

One of every seven U.S. residents is Hispanic, and that will eventually increase to nearly one of every four, according to a new study that calls for improved education to integrate the minority group into society. "Failure to close Hispanics' education and language gap risks compromising their ability to both contribute to and share in national prosperity," cautions the study by the National Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of Sciences. Gabriela Lemus, director of policy and legislation at the League of United Latin American Citizens, agreed that graduating from high school is critical. Without that "they are...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -The nation as a whole is moving in the direction of its two most populous states, California and Texas, where members of racial and ethnic minorities account for more than half the population, the Census Bureau said Thursday. Non-Hispanic whites now make up two-thirds of the nation's total population, the bureau said, but that proportion will dip to one-half by 2050, according to the agency's latest projections. In a new report, estimating population levels as of July 1, 2004, the Census Bureau said Texas had a minority population of 11.3 million, accounting for 50.2 percent of its...

Crime in the nation's schools fell sharply from 1992 to 2002, part of the broad decline in crime in the last decade, according to a report issued yesterday by the Justice Department and the Department of Education. School crime over that period dropped to an annual rate of 24 violent incidents per 100,000 students from 48 violent incidents, the report found. The figures were based on a nationwide random sample of students who were asked whether they had been victims of crime. In 2002, students 12 to 18 years old were more likely to be victims of serious violent crime...

The Census Bureau must make changes to a new annual survey that collects demographic information on Americans or risk having to mail "long forms" again for the next head count in 2010, congressional watchdogs said Monday. The Government Accountability Office criticized planning and methodology for the new "American Community Survey," including questions over how to count Americans with seasonal homes and how data is collected for neighborhoods and other small areas. The bureau has been testing the survey for years. However, the plan to begin full implementation for 2005 has several critical deficiencies, the GAO said. Associate bureau director Preston...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of adult immigrants holding a job has grown by more than 2 million since 2000, while the number of employed native-born Americans fell by nearly a half-million, according to a study released Wednesday by a group that favors stricter immigration controls. The Washington-based Center for Immigration Studies, in its analysis of Census Bureau data, also found that occupations with some of the highest unemployment rates among U.S.-born citizens tended to be in job sectors such as construction that had the largest influx of recent immigrants. More recently arrived immigrants may be more willing to travel...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Many of the world's largest industrialized nations will lose population between now and 2050 as low birth rates, struggling economies and curbs on immigration stifle growth, says the author of a world population report. The annual study by the private Population Reference Bureau found that, while the world's population will increase nearly 50 percent by mid-century, Japan will lose 20 percent of its population in the next 45 years, while Russia, Germany and Italy will also see declines. The United States is the biggest exception among developed countries, with its population forecast to rise by 43 percent...

<p>The U.S. population grew by 2.8 million in the past year and is edging toward 300 million, a threshold that should be reached within four years.</p> <p>The South and West added the most people in the year that ended July 1, and Nevada was the fastest-growing state for the 17th consecutive year, according to Census Bureau estimates Thursday.</p>

English alternatives at home on rise The Census Bureau found that nearly one in five Americans speak a language other than English while at home. By Michelle Dynes rep2@wyomingnews.com Published in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle CHEYENNE - Some 47 million Americans ages 5 and older used a language other than English at home in 2000, according to a new Census Bureau report. This translates into nearly one in five Americans compared with roughly one in seven 10 years earlier. Most speak Spanish, followed by Chinese, with Russian rising fast. The Spanish-speaking population rose by 62 percent over the past decade to...

Census Bureau to Break Ground for New Headquarters 9/15/03 2:56:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: Assignment Desk, Daybooks Contact: Stephen Buckner of the U.S. Census Bureau, 301-763-3030 News Advisory: WHAT: The U.S. Census Bureau and the General Services Administration will be joined by federal, state and local officials for a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on a new 1.5 million-square-foot Census Bureau headquarters complex at the Suitland Federal Center. WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 16, at 10 a.m. EDT WHO: Deputy Secretary Samuel Bodman, U.S. Department of Commerce, Under Secretary Kathleen Cooper, U.S. Department of Commerce, Director Louis Kincannon, U.S....

Moving West is no longer the norm Wed Aug 6, 6:09 AM ET By Haya El Nasser, USA TODAY The exodus of millions of people from California and New York in the late 1990s may signal the end of the nation's traditional settlement patterns from East to West. A series of reports released by the Census Bureau today shows that most of the people who moved out of New York are going to suburbs in New Jersey and Connecticut or to retirement havens and fast-growing job centers in the Southeast. Most of the people leaving California are going to other...

San Antonio on the verge of becoming second largest BY SONJA GARZA San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO - San Antonio is on the verge of besting Dallas as Texas' second-largest city, according to population estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census figures show the number of people living in San Antonio swelled to 1.19 million as of July 2000 - a 23,400 net gain from the previous summer. Dallas saw an increase of 5,570 during the same time frame - from July 1, 2001, to July 1, 2002 - bringing its population to 1.21 million. "If Dallas continues to...

Last summer, IRS Commissioner Charles Rossotti promised an immediate 28 percent increase in the number of tax audits. The National Research Program (NRP), instituted in January, is the first installment toward making good on that promise. The NRP is the resurrected Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Program (TCMP) audit. The TCMP audit was the grueling line-by-line examination of randomly selected tax returns audited to compile statistical data for the Discriminate Function System (DIF) database. This is a computer program that compares every line of your tax return with national and regional averages. If any line of your return is higher than...