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Mar 15 2024
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Louisiana's most — and least — Irish parish, based on Census data
We might all be Irish on St. Patrick's Day, but the reality is only 5.7% of Orleans Parish residents have Irish ancestry, according to the U.S. Census.
The big picture: The United States had an average Irish ancestry of 9.5% in 2022. • New England and New York have significantly higher numbers, while Southern states are the least Irish.
AxiosMar 14 2024
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Texas counties lead the US in population growth, Census says
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Six out of the 10 fastest-growing counties in the U.S. from 2022 to 2023 are in Texas, according to recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Kaufman County, just east of Dallas, led the list with a 7.6% increase that brought its population over 185,000, Census data
Click 2 Houston KPRCMar 14 2024
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Portland metro population decline slows, Census Bureau says
The Portland area’s population continued to shrink in 2023, but the decline has slowed to a trickle, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Federal data released Thursday show the Portland region — which spans five Oregon counties and two in Washington state — shed a scant 0.03% of its residents, just under 900 people, in the year leading up to July 1. The metro area’s
The OregonianMar 29 2024
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White House releases Census revision to include Middle Eastern or North African category
CHICAGO (CBS) –In a victory for representation decades in the making, the next U.S. Census will finally count Arab Americans with the creation of a new category. Previously, Arab Americans were often forced to choose between "White" or "other." The CBS 2 Investigators have been following the community's fight for years. The Chicago area has one of the largest Arab American populations in the
CBS News (Online)Jul 04 2019
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Census 2020: Trump persists in citizenship question row
President Trump sowed confusion on Wednesday and said he was "moving forward" with the controversial plan.
This came a day after his own senior officials said the census papers would be printed without the question.
It leaves the future of the census, which determines electoral districts and federal funding, in some doubt.
BBC NewsMar 14 2024
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Latest census numbers show which NC counties grew and which shrank since the pandemic
North Carolina’s two largest counties are still attracting lots of new residents, accounting for more than a quarter of the state’s population growth since 2020, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. But the pace of growth continues to be highest in coastal and suburban counties, which have grown by 10% or more in three years. Meanwhile, during that time, nearly one in
The News & ObserverMar 25 2024
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Greater Nashville Music City Census lacking young industry respondents, in final stretches
The Greater Nashville Music City Census, a project aiming to collect data on Nashville's music industry professionals, is in its home stretch. It has extended its deadline for entries to April 1 in the midst of a distinct lack of participation from young musicians. Since its launch on March 1, Nashville has joined the ranks of a national cohort of 20 cities hoping to find data-driven solutions
The TennesseanMay 07 2018
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How Republicans are undermining the 2020 census, explained with a cartoon
Why it’s so hard to count everyone — especially marginalized populations.
VoxMar 15 2024
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New parish census estimates show widespread population loss across Louisiana
The precipitous loss of residents that Louisiana has seen over the last three years has been spread across nearly every parish, with urban and rural areas alike seeing large decreases, according to a new U.S. Census Bureau estimate of local population changes that offers another stark sign of the challenge facing state leaders. Some of the steepest declines were in areas hard-hit by hurricanes
The Times-PicayuneApr 11 2024
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COVID and 2020 protests spell doom for medium-sizes cities
“STAY HOME ST LOUIS” the downtown traffic signs read during the pandemic. The locals obeyed then. And they are still staying out of downtown St. Louis today. “The office district is empty,” the Wall Street Journal recently reported, “with boarded up towers, copper thieves and failing retail — even the Panera outlet shut down. The city is desperately trying to reverse the ‘doom loop.” Yet
Washington Examiner