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American household income finally topped 1999 peak last year
Sep 12, 2017
Incomes for a typical U.S. household rose to $59,039 in 2016.
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LGBTQ advocates ask why questions left off Census survey
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Sam Harnett
Jul 10, 2017
Gay rights advocates say questions about sexual orientation and gender identity would connect the LGBTQ community to all the rich data of the census.
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Census director resigns as ramp up for 2020 count begins
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Jed Kim
May 10, 2017
The resignation of the U.S. Census Bureau director leaves the agency with no leader just month before it begins a big hiring and technology push for the 2020 census. Data from the census is useful far beyond counting the population. Economists and businesses use census numbers to decide where and when to expand, or pull […]
The wage gap decreases slightly among married couples
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Tobin Low
Nov 23, 2015
Census data shows wives' earnings gaining on husbands'
Why people are moving
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Shea Huffman
Jun 6, 2014
The U.S. Census Bureau released a survey detailing the reasons for when people move.
Income, poverty and a new interactive from Marketplace
Sep 20, 2013
The U.S. Census released a report on the national median income and poverty rate this week. And Marketplace released a data tool on incomes to tell a bigger story about how we live at any income.
Income Upshot: Homer Simpson edition
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Jolie Myers
Sep 12, 2013
The Income Upshot tool can tell you how people at your income level live, work and play. But you can also find out a lot about other people in the public eye.
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My first job: Census worker in New York
Aug 20, 2013
Writer and filmmaker dream hampton on the job that honed her interviewing skills.
Census survey goes online
Dec 19, 2012
Census Bureau to put yearly American Community Survey online to save money, encourage responses.
Fun facts from the Census on jobs by gender and race
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John Ketchum
Nov 29, 2012
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a burst of data on who works in which profession and where. We plucked out a few interesting facts from the release.