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Census Bureau
Fewer cranes on the horizon? Banking tumult could slow nonresidential construction
Mar 28, 2023
Smaller and regional banks are major lenders not only for office construction, but also building projects like hospitals, educational institutions and ports.
More buyers are backing out of housing contracts
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Amy Scott
Jan 26, 2023
They're down about 26% compared to a year ago.
Household income stayed flat in 2021, census data shows
Sep 14, 2022
Wage increases have been eaten by high inflation.
Child poverty fell by nearly half in 2021, Census Bureau says
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Matt Levin
Sep 13, 2022
The supplemental poverty rate fell to its lowest since 2009. Children living in poverty fell by almost half.
Census finds nearly 30 million people didn't have health insurance in 2019
Sep 16, 2020
With COVID-19-related job losses, health experts expect the number of people without insurance to grow this year.
Low unemployment puts strain on census hiring
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Matt Bloom
Mar 11, 2020
The Census Bureau is offering higher wages and pulling workers in from neighboring states.
Why are Americans moving less and less?
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Amy Scott
Nov 22, 2019
Census numbers show lowest the mobility rate on record.
For public good, not for profit.
The U.S. housing market is in a weird place
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Ben Bradford
Jun 18, 2019
There is demand for new homes, but a lot of it is among first-time home buyers who can’t afford them.
The 2020 census is going high-tech and online
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Kai Ryssdal
Feb 14, 2019
Every 10 years, the U.S. government counts every living person in the country. The 2020 head count will be the first U.S. census conducted mostly online. “For more than 200 years, the census has been this pencil and paper activity,” said Issie Lapowsky, senior writer at WIRED. “It’s a really human intensive, really time-intensive process.” […]
U.S. Census Bureau will be looking to hire field workers in a competitive labor market
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Erika Beras
Oct 8, 2018
The U.S. Census Bureau says it needs to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to complete the 2020 census. But since the economy is in such good shape, with unemployment down to 3.7 percent in September, that hiring task may be a lot harder than it was back in 2010. And the census faces more […]