Latest Current Population Survey Stories
Unemployment for U.S. Citizens in these States among Highest in Country Yet Senators Push for More Immigration WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eight U.S. Senators from seven states - Rubio (R-FL), McCain (R-AZ), Graham (R-SC), Flake (R-AZ), Schumer (D-NY), Menendez (D-NJ), Bennet (D-CO), and Durbin (D-IL) - have proposed an immigration plan allowing illegal immigrants to remain in the country and increasing legal immigration in the future. A number of the Gang...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Census Bureau, with support from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, today released its second annual report, The Research Supplemental Poverty Measure: 2011, describing research on a new supplemental poverty measure. This measure extends information provided by the official poverty measure, released Sept. 12, by explicitly including benefits from many of the government programs designed to assist low-income families and...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Census Bureau's annual, national-level statistics on the characteristics of students, from nursery to graduate school. According to the statistics, enrollment in private elementary and high schools was 4.1 million in 2011, down from 4.8 million in 2005 and a high of 6.3 million in 1965. Furthermore, non-Hispanic white children now make up only a slight majority of elementary school students (54 percent), down from 58 percent in...
Maryland's Leaders Raising No Objection To Admitting One Million Immigrant Workers Next Year, Despite Three Million Black Americans Unable To Find Jobs BALTIMORE, Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, NumbersUSA launched a TV and radio ad blitz in Baltimore, Maryland calling attention to the fact that America's leaders will admit one million immigrant workers next year to take American jobs despite millions of U.S. citizens unable to find work, including more than three...
Despite Three Million African Americans Unable To Find Jobs, Our Leaders Will Admit One Million Immigrant Workers Next Year To Take Jobs DENVER, Oct. 2, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NumbersUSA will launch a national TV campaign tomorrow night during news coverage of the first presidential debate between President Barack Obama and republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. The TV ad calls attention to the fact that the nation's leaders will admit another one million immigrant...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Census Bureau announced today the public release schedule for the official income, poverty and health insurance estimates for 2011 from the Current Population Survey (CPS), as well as estimates from the American Community Survey (ACS). The ACS and CPS are surveys designed to capture socio-economic and housing data from a sample of the population. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO)...
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Computer and Internet Use at Home: 2010 -- These tables provide information about computer and Internet use from the Current Population Survey (CPS) School Enrollment and Internet Use Supplement. The tables display national and state level data and examine householder and individual characteristics by school enrollment, age, race, sex and Hispanic origin. Additional tables use data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
WASHINGTON, June 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In 2010, there were 22.0 million shared households in the United States, an 11.4 percent increase from 2007, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau report. This total of shared households accounted for 18.7 percent of all households, up from 17.0 percent in 2007. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110428/DC91889LOGO) The report, Sharing a Household: Household Composition and Economic Well-Being: 2007-2010, analyzes...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Women's History Month's roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women's Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn't until 1981 that Congress established National Women's History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- National Women's History Month's roots go back to March 8, 1857, when women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. International Women's Day was first observed in 1909, but it wasn't until 1981 that Congress established National Women's History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for...
