U.S. Census Bureau

NYC Anti-Teen Pregnancy Campaign Targets Deadbeat Dads With Text Message Games

The New York City Department of Social Services launched a new campaign last week, filling bus stops and subways across the five boroughs with a torrent of anti-teen pregnancy propaganda. One subway poster reads," I'm twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen." Another ... More >>

What's the Value of a College Degree?

ROI on your B.A.

Census Concerns Continue as Queens Grows

Last week, the Voice reported on the U.S. Census Bureau's ruling that New York is not as big as Mayor Mike Bloomberg says. The Census claims that the city's population is 8,175,133, but the city's Department of Planning has countered that the population is closer to 8.4 million as of July 2010. ... More >>

U.S. Census: New York City is Not as Big as Bloomberg Says it is

Sorry, Mike! The city is just not as big as you think it is. That's according to the U.S. Census Bureau, anyway, which, in very unsurprising news, has announced that it is not revising its official population count for 2010, despite the city's official challenge of the final number. Every ten yea ... More >>

Comptroller John Liu: City Unemployment in Double Digits For Youth and Minorities

​Comptroller John Liu, a possible 2013 mayoral candidate, released a report yesterday that highlighted the disparities in unemployment rates across the city. At the end of 2011, the rate of unemployment was in the double digits for young people, blacks, and Hispanics -- and the rate was nearly ... More >>

More Adult Men Are Living With Their Mommies and Daddies

98% of dogs still live at home with their parents. ​Here is a reason to check upstairs when you're hanging out in the well-appointed basement pad of your new man friend. He might actually be living with his parents. According to a new Census Bureau study, nearly one in five men in their late 2 ... More >>

Nearly Half the Population of New York City Has Never Been Married

​According to data released yesterday by the U.S. Census Bureau in their annual American Community Survey (via WNYC), New York state has the highest percentage of women who have never married in all of America. While the percentage statewide is 34.8 percent (that counts New York women 15 and o ... More >>

Census: More People in New York Than Ever Before

via Hello Turkey Toe​The Census numbers are in, and New York City is more populated than ever before. But not much more. The New York Times reports that the 2010 count recorded a growth of about 166,000 people since 2000, bringing the current population to 8,175,133. Of those people, 8,175,130 ... More >>

Earth Will Be Crowded, Hungry, and Full of Human-Robot Porn in 2050

​The United Nations is predicting that Earth may be "unrecognizable" in 2050 due to the rise of population and the increase in demand for food. The population is expected to jump from seven billion to nine billion by that year. Yahoo quotes Jason Clay of the World Wildlife Fund as saying, "We ... More >>

New York Will Lose Seats in the House, Thanks to Census-Abstaining Hipsters

​Hey, if you didn't fill out your census -- and it was easy, seriously -- now is when we all get to point our fingers at you and growl, or extract whatever means of punishment seems suitable (kick you out of New York?). The Census Bureau is set to announce this month that our state's Congressi ... More >>

Unemployed Actors Have a Future in Pest Control

​Rejoice, out-of-work Law & Order extras! We know it's been hard since your favorite legal procedural/gravy train went off the air, but there's a new job on the horizon for you, and it's not playing a murder victim in Central Park or waiting tables. Actors, it seems, are the perfect personalit ... More >>

The Poorest Congressional District in America? Right Here, in New York City

​There are 435 congressional districts in the United States of America. And the poorest one in the country is right here in New York City. Can you guess which one it is?

For Every 100 Single Women, There Are 88 Single Men, and Other Invigorating Findings From the U.S. Census Bureau

Here is a typical single lady, enjoying her cosmo-tini and thinking about being single, and her next Botox appointment (via CNN)​Hey, single ladies! (And single men, too, but mostly ladies, because there are just more of you looking off longingly into the distance and thinking about your once- ... More >>

The Census Is a Lot Like the Time You Lost Your Virginity

Soooo awkward​So today's your last day to fill out the census (supposedly) before you can expect some lovely government-enabled body to come pound on your door demanding facts and figures and being generally pushy and bureaucracy-oriented. And since we personally have been alternately bored/co ... More >>

White Mexicans, and Other Non-Census

Question number 9 throws la raza into a tizzy

Today is Census Day! April Fools!

​Unlike my colleague Jen Doll, I have not filled out my census form yet, for the simple reason that I haven't received it. It's possible that my upstairs neighbors have it, or that the local stray cats are using it as a litter box — since the Census Bureau helpfully addresses all mail to ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Rebel Amnesty?

The Know-Nothings have been holding out on the Mexican

Majority-minority New York holds majority-minority mayoral election

Crains NY​Voters who self-identify as white made up less than 50% of the turnout in last month's citywide elections, according to exit polling by Edison Media Research.

Report: White Minority in U.S. by 2050

Finally, a little good news to brighten our holiday-- and from the Census Bureau, yet. (Love the optimistic spin at the LA Times: "White Americans' majority to continue until 2050." Let the late-Roman revels begin! ) Don't worry, honkies, the Bureau figures suggests you can arrest the trend by st ... More >>

Veteran's Day Parade at 11 a.m.

​Today is Veterans Day, The traditional parade starts at 11 a.m. and runs from 23rd to 57th Street along Fifth Avenue; it will include the famous Navajo Code Talkers of World War II and a dramatic flyover. The parade is still the nation's largest and includes performers from all over the area ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican! Wedding Bell Blues

Mexican parents apply full-court pressure

¡Ask A Mexican! Lawn Jockeying

Watering the grass becomes an immigration issue

Krugman called it: 'Heads they win, tails we lose'

Daily Flog: Kicking the habit but blindly drunk, hounded by Afghans, woofed at by Hillary

Whitewashing the bad econ news

Daily Flog: Campaign's rich laughs; Bolt beats Phelps; fatal wounds to Musharraf, John Galt, Georgia, and a boxer

Poor Analysis

Size Matters: Feds Admit NYC's Enormity

NY Inmates: Locked-Up, Counted Out?

Storm Freddy

Campaign 2005's About the Polls, Not the Poor

I, Breadwinner?

Your dad had a job, a wife, a house. You've got loans and fear of commitment. Hello, manhood.

A Swinger's Diary

Stars descend on a dying town in hopes that Cleveland rocks the vote

Ain't It Cool?

Lit prof Alan Liu: 'I went to sleep one day a cultural critic and woke the next metamorphosed into a data processor'

Civil Rights Rollback

The spread of racial profiling since 9-11

A New Voting Age for Women: 26

Jam the Vote

A New Group Aims to Turn Deadheads Into Voters

The Height of Disrespect

New study on 'hip-hop' sexuality finds anti-woman strain—even among young women

The Grim Recent History of Iraq

Facts and Shivers

Who Decides Who's Black or Hispanic?

Should Individuals of More Than One Race Be Preferred?

Left Out of Affirmative Action

Unequal Protection of the Laws

Trent Lott, Call Home

Why Should We Be Glad He's Still in the Senate?

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Nation

Civil Rights Leaders Fear Bush Drags Feet on Flawed Census Data

Undercounting of African Americans Could Cause Loss of Key Congressional Districts

The Other America 2000

Hunger in Texas and Tennessee

No Space Like Home

Study Finds More Apartments, Fewer Vacancies

Poetic Injustice: A Gravedigga Fights for Life

The Critical Condition of Health Coverage in the Music Industry

Nation