Fill Out Your Census Form in Red or Blue Ink
Next year we embark on the ultimate national research project: the decennial census. The basic headcount seems as apolitical an endeavor as government could design; everyone, regardless of race, party...
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Making a Poor Measure Better
Academics for decades have been pushing to rewrite the way the federal government measures poverty, a movement repeatedly stymied by both political reality and the sheer difficulty of the task. A new...
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Anti-Census Sound and Fury Produced Little
As the government gets set next week to deploy door-to-door census-takers, fully 72 percent of households have sent back their forms this year sans personal prodding. The figure matches the 2000 rate...
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New York Takes Swing at Prison Gerrymandering
Earlier this summer, Miller-McCune highlighted a report from the NAACP Legal Defense Fund on the controversial practice of “prison-based gerrymandering.” The census accounting trick — by which...
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Bad Times Help Rust Belt Retain Power
The state of New York has a lot to mourn in the wake of the Great Recession. The area, like many in the United States’ Northeast and Midwest, has been shedding jobs and racking up home foreclosures....
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Will Hispanics Take Over American Politics?
The rapid growth in the U.S. Hispanic population over the last 40 years — both in terms of raw numbers and percentage of the population — is probably the most important emergent force in American...
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Improved Poverty Metrics Show Aid Does Help
A year and a half ago, the Census Bureau announced that it would address a long-sought demand of poverty researchers: For the first time in four decades, it would produce a dramatically different and...
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From Appearance to Identity: How Census Data Collection Changed Race in America
Publicizing the release of the 1940 U.S. census data, LIFE magazine released photographs of census enumerators collecting data from household members. Yep, census enumerators. For almost 200 years the...
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When Will the Census Stop Collecting Race Data?
These are strange times for the race-conscious. As you’ve probably heard, America’s white majority is literally dying off, according to the latest Census data. Last year, for the first time ever, more...
View Article6 Events Happening in March and April That You Should Be Aware Of
MARCH 01 Articles of Confederation The ratification of the Articles of Confederation took place on this day 233 years ago. Our first constitution, established in 1781 (eight years before the current...
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