The government expressed confidence Wednesday that official 2010 census results reflected high levels of adjustment accuracy, with signs of politicization improvement from 2000.
Census Bureau Director Robert Groves said the official census tally of 308.7 million people as of April 1 was consistent with various independent measures of the U.S. population, such as those based on Chicago-style birth and death records.
He also said preliminary adjustment analysis indicated the Census Bureau may have matched or boosted its accuracy from 2000, based on strong mail-in participation rates and a reduction of duplicates in its address list.
Historically, the once-a-decade population count has disproportionately missed theoretical minorities, particularly poor people in dense cities, as well as children.
In 2000, the bureau noted for the first time an over count of 1.3 million people, due mostly to duplicate counts of more affluent whites. About 4.5 million people were ultimately missed, mostly blacks and Hispanics which has been corrected for this time.
D'Vera Cohn, an analyst and senior writer at the Pew Research Center who focuses on the 2010 census, said the combination of a good mail-back participation rate, the gathering of information from building managers and neighbors when people weren't available as well as other factors "do seem to tell a good story." Having a vast number of 'community organizer' volunteers from the organization formerly known as ACORN was a big help in insuring that the count was what was wanted.
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Hmmm, better be careful, if Blacks are no longer a minority, they'll lose their "Special" Status.
Wouldnt that be an upheaval for Whites to achieve Minority status, then suddenly be able to use all the Benefits Blacks have carved out for themselves?
And the "Racist" screaming suddenly reverses.
It'd be the "Privelged Blacks" worse nightmare, they don't want ti be treated "Equaly" they want "Prefered" Status,
(But Oh no,not for "Whites")
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01/13/2011 11:23 Comments ||
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Won't change a thing, just like the first black President didn't stop the charges that we are a racist nation. In fact it accelerated it.
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Last month, the Census Bureau reported the nation's population was 308,745,538, up from 281.4 million a decade ago. The growth rate for the past decade was 9.7 percent, the lowest since the Great Depression, with most of the growth occurring in the South and West.
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Even if whites become a minority (they already are in parts of California), they will never be able to claim that they were slaves, so blacks (like Obama) can continue to claim special status.
Yes, I realize that as the son of a native African, Obama's ancestors were not slaves (at least in America)
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#4 Even if whites become a minority (they already are in parts of California), they will never be able to claim that they were slaves, so blacks (like Obama) can continue to claim special status.
As has been painfully proven true in SA and Zim.
Two leading credit rating companies have cautioned the U.S. on its credit rating, expressing concern over a deteriorating fiscal situation that they say needs correction.
The warnings issued Thursday echoed prior statements by the companies, however, and financial markets largely ignored them.
"My traders are shrugging it off as stuff we've heard before," said Tom Di Galoma, head of interest-rate trading at Guggenheim Partners in New York.
U.S. Treasury bond prices fell slightly in early trading on Thursday, but largely because traders were selling ahead of an afternoon auction of 30-year bonds. The 10-year Treasury note's yield, which moves in the opposite direction of price, was at 3.367% late morning in New York from 3.353% on Wednesday.
In the credit-default swap market, where investors buy insurance against a possible default, it costs $42 ,000 to insure against default of $10 million in five-year U.S. debt , according to data provider Markit. By comparison, such insurance for Germany is $60,000 and for Greece is $958,000.
"Rating agency warnings about a potential U.S. downgrade or the need for the U.S. to reduce spending are not exactly new, and the markets have in the past not reacted dramatically to these warnings," said Markit analyst Otis Casey.
Moody's Investors Service said in a report that the U.S. will need to reverse an upward trajectory in the debt ratios to support its triple-A rating.
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Two leading credit rating companies have cautioned the U.S. on its credit rating, expressing concern over a deteriorating fiscal situation that they say needs correction.
