The Census Bureau is encouraging developers to create and share customized apps
TheDC Morning: Joe Biden doesn't know how to feel about WikiLeaks, chooses to feel everything - TheDC
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Read TheDC Morning: An unvarnished e-mail summary of what’s really happening in political news
California's boom times are over
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High taxes and job-killing laws are contributing to the Golden State’s decline.
ACORN files for bankruptcy and blames 'right-wing media' for downfall - TheDC
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Bertha Lewis, the potty-mouthed chief organizer of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) announced today that her group has filed a Chapter 7 bankruptcy petition
Young, single women earn more than male peers - WSJ
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Women are now more likely to attend college than their male counterparts
The end of Census ends several jobs - NYT
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Nearly 700,000 Americans, who were employed by the Census Bureau, could lose their jobs
Violence against Census workers doubles over 2000 - WAPO
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An unexpected result for some census takers: the wrath of irate Americans
No need to rush to more ethanol
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Ethanol mills are making money. Taxpayer subsidies are starting to flow overseas. The impact of a bigger blend of ethanol has a lot of as of yet unanswered questions—the biggest of which, given the economic standing of the industry is, what’s the rush?
Census official fires back over employment figures - The Daily Caller
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The online comments section of the New York Post became a forum for Census officials to refute a columnist’s claims that the Census gamed its employment numbers
Revealing Obama’s blueprint, and how to stop him
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President Obama is executing a blueprint to remake this country, taking us from a free-market economy to a government-controlled economy, from a family-centered society to a government-centered society, and from a national philosophy founded upon the primacy of the individual to one founded upon the primacy of society’s “collective good”
Immigration prevents environmental progress
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Today is the 40th anniversary of the first Earth Day – and a grim reminder of how immigration has undercut virtually all environmental progress.
Republicans regret undermining Census
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Republicans are having a fit and falling in it after learning that liberals are filling out their Census forms in droves
Census numbers uncensored
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Government cannot improve one individual’s situation without taking away from another. Just as it does for any government program, this applies to money allocated by the Census. This helps the community about as much as mugging somebody on the street
Census advertising doesn’t appear to be working as planned
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According to the Census participation tracker, only 20 percent of Census forms mailed to occupied homes have been returned
Will the Census Bureau share your personal information?
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It has before, according to the Miami Herald
Broadband Across America
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NTIA reports that this paper confirms that a sizable portion of Americans are still using Internet connections classified as narrowband (less than 200 kilobits per second) or do not have any access to the Internet
Ways to Make Higher Education More Affordable
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President Obama has proposed a new plan to cap student loan payments at 10 percent of the borrower’s discretionary income. Borrowers with incomes below 150 percent of the federal poverty line (or approximately $33,000) would be required to make no payment, and the balance of a borrower’s loan would be forgiven after 20 years for a private-sector
