The U.S. Census is a treasure trove of information on worker trends. The 2006 American Community Survey gives mangers even more incentive to make higher education a priority. Workers with a bachelor's degree have a 2.7% unemployment rate -- less than half the 6.1% unemployment rate for high school graduates....
Long Island's brain drain is getting worse. According to statistics released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the region continues to have the highest rate of decline of residents 25- to-44 years of age in the state. The Island has lost 19 percent, or nearly 160,000, of its...
WASHINGTON -- On Oct. 1, 1908, Ford Motor Co. introduced the Model T, generally regarded as the first affordable automobile and the car that industry experts say "put America on wheels." The first Model T, produced for the 1909 model year, was assembled by hand and sold for $850. The...
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Census Bureau today released important new one-year data for Puerto Rico on social, economic, housing and demographic characteristics, as well as for geographic areas with populations of 65,000 or more. The 2007 data cover topics ranging from language to education, from family size to work commute,...
New Census Bureau Data Show How America Lives WASHINGTON -- At least one-in-five residents of Arizona, California, New Mexico and Texas spoke Spanish at home in 2007, according to new American Community Survey data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Nationwide, an estimated 35 million, or about...
In the 1990s, your family came for dinner. Now they're moving in. The number of parents, siblings and other relatives who live with adult heads of households grew 42% from 2000 to 2007, according to data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Leading the way:...
Law Enforcement Associates Corporation LEA(AMEX: AID), the largest U.S. developer and manufacturer of undercoversurveillance equipment, today announced it has received a $1.4 millionorder from the U.S. Census Bureau. The products associated with the order,which were not identified for reasons of confidentiality, are expected toship during the fourth quarter. "Our...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Census Bureau: [TABLE OMITTED] Editor's note: News releases, reports and data tables are available on the Census Bureau's home page. Go to <http://www.census.gov and click on "Releases."...
Another sign that a vital part of Houston's economy is coming back to life in the wake of Ike. HOUSTON, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA Logistics, one of the leading supply chain companies in the world, reports both its ground fleet and air freight divisions are operating...
Dear EarthTalk: Why are some environmental groups jumping on the immigration issue? What does immigration have to do with the environment?--Ginna Jones, Darien, CT What to do about booming legal and illegal immigration rates is one of the most controversial topics on Americans' political agenda these days. More...
Prices of single-family homes across the United States are still falling, but the declines are slowing down, according to one of the leading housing market indictors. Numbers released by Standard & Poor's on Aug. 26 showed a 15.4 percent decline in the second quarter of 2008, compared to the same...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If knowledge is power, behooves a society to arm its citizens mentally, as well as physically. For Latinos, issues of education quality and access continue to be of concern. According to the Pew Hispanic Center, it's one of the top four issues determining who Latinos will...
If the East Bay economy could be judged by Pleasanton's median household income of $113,345, or its poverty rate of 2.1 percent, the region would seem to be doing fine. The U.S. Census Bureau released statistics Tuesday that show the Tri-Valley city of about 68,000 people has...
If the East Bay economy could be judged by Pleasanton's median household income of $113,345, or its poverty rate of 2.1 percent, the region would seem to be doing fine. The U.S. Census Bureau released statistics Tuesday that show the Tri-Valley city of about 68,000 people has...
ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- Rev. Larry Snyder, president of Catholic Charities USA, issued the following statement regarding new statistics released today by the U.S. Census Bureau that show 800,000 more people are living in poverty in the United States: "It is unacceptable that in a nation that is as...
The number of Americans without health insurance dropped by more than 1 million people in 2007, the first annual decline in seven years, U.S. Census Bureau officials announced Tuesday. The drop was driven largely by an increase in the number of children getting health insurance through government-funded programs. "Both the...
XIHALife , the world's first truly multilingual social network, publiclylaunched today in the U.S., allowing millions of exchange students,expatriates, and multilingual and multicultural users living outside theirhome countries to build global neighborhoods that let them communicate innearly 50 languages -- all from within a single account. XIHA Life alsoannounced today...
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Data through June 2008, released today by Standard & Poor's for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home(1) Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, shows continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, a trend that...
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