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U.S. Census Bureau

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2011

    About that Census: At Least We're Not Detroit, or Cleveland, or Pittsburgh, or Cincinnati

    A Census employee works the streets of (INSERT MIDWEST CITY) last summer.​Yesterday St. Louis officials all but conceded that the 2010 U.S. Census got it right: The city did lose 30,000 people, or 8.3 percent of its population, over the past decade. And while there's been lots of hand-wringing abo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 16, 2011

    Population Center of United States Moves Southwest Through Missouri

    A hundred years ago Bloomington, Indiana, had its time in the spotlight.​The 2010 U.S. Census is expected to show the mean center of the U.S. population continuing its southwestern slide across Missouri. One hundred years ago, the nation's population center was in Bloomington, Indiana, as evident ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 15, 2010

    This Just In: St. Louis Is Segregated

    ​The St. Louis metro area clocks in at (un)lucky No. 7 in terms of black/white racial segregation among the country's largest urban regions. That's according to 2009 data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, which was analyzed by A.P. and Post-Dispatch reporters and summarized in an article this mo ... More >>

  • News

    December 9, 2010

    You think the Americans with Disabilities Act has leveled the playing field? Try walking in my shoes.

    ​The St. Louis metro area clocks in at (un)lucky No. 7 in terms of black/white racial segregation among the country's largest urban regions. That's according to 2009 data released by the U.S. Census Bureau, which was analyzed by A.P. and Post-Dispatch reporters and summarized in an article this mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    St. Louis' Racial Divide: Mapped!

    ​File this under "cool infographic of the day." Eric Fischer, a (by all evidence) nerdy dude from California who is very interested in cities and how they work, used the 2000 Census data from the 40 most populous cities in the U.S. to make maps that visualize the racial segregation in all tho ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    How to Identify a Census Worker

    Behold a census worker. ​A census worker won't:sell you Girl Scout cookies (or anything else). stalk you, but he (or she) will knock on your door up to three times. come inside your house. (So, don't even ask.)Still unclear about what a census worker will and won't do? You're in luck! Daily RFT ju ... More >>

  • News

    May 12, 2010

    Worst or First! St. Louis' showings in a plethora of nationwide rankings.

    Behold a census worker. ​A census worker won't:sell you Girl Scout cookies (or anything else). stalk you, but he (or she) will knock on your door up to three times. come inside your house. (So, don't even ask.)Still unclear about what a census worker will and won't do? You're in luck! Daily RFT ju ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    What Mayor Slay Says -- And Doesn't Say -- on Twitter

    Twitter's cool! Follow me on Twitter and maybe I'll follow you too! We can follow each other! Cool! We can also follow St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. I try to keep up on Twitter -- you know, a Tweet here, a Tweet there, once in a while a Tweet, Tweet. But I can't hold a candle to the mayor. I've man ... More >>

  • News

    April 7, 2010

    Ask a Mexican: Special Census Edition

    Twitter's cool! Follow me on Twitter and maybe I'll follow you too! We can follow each other! Cool! We can also follow St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay. I try to keep up on Twitter -- you know, a Tweet here, a Tweet there, once in a while a Tweet, Tweet. But I can't hold a candle to the mayor. I've man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2010

    Fill Out Your Census Form, Help Get Mayor Slay Some KC BBQ

    Image sourceTake five minutes, get counted, help Mayor Slay get some beer and BBQ.​Mayor Francis Slay has made a bet with Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser this U.S. census season: Whose city will increase its census form mail-in response rate by the highest percentage?If St. Louis wins, Slay stan ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2010

    Mayor Francis Slay Urges LGBT Couples to Come Out and Be Counted in 2010 Census

    MayorSlay.com​The United States census form does not always keep up with the times. On this year's form, for instance, people still have the option to identify themselves as "Negro," a term that all but disappeared in the late 1960s. The Census Bureau defended its decision by claiming that m ... More >>

  • News

    February 17, 2010

    ¡Ask A Mexican! The Mexican weighs in on the value of immigrant restaurant workers

    MayorSlay.com​The United States census form does not always keep up with the times. On this year's form, for instance, people still have the option to identify themselves as "Negro," a term that all but disappeared in the late 1960s. The Census Bureau defended its decision by claiming that m ... More >>

  • News

    January 13, 2010

    Amnesty's Not International: The Mexican muses on parallels between Dixie and Mexico

    MayorSlay.com​The United States census form does not always keep up with the times. On this year's form, for instance, people still have the option to identify themselves as "Negro," a term that all but disappeared in the late 1960s. The Census Bureau defended its decision by claiming that m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    Survey Shows Wash. U. Full of Rich Kids, Shoddy Statisticians

    flickr.com/photos/artydog​Who knew? Lots of affluent kids attend Washington University. A recent survey of Wash. U. undergrads revealed that 44 percent of the university population comes from the upper class, though many of them don't actually want to admit it.A student group, Washington Universit ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2009

    Why is St. Louis Never Ranked as a Progressive City? Is It Because We're Too Black?

    Portland: A place white people like.​Those are the questions essentially posed by urban affairs blogger Aaron Renn in his latest posting, titled "The White City." Renn takes a look at the mid-sized cities of Portland, Austin, Seattle, Denver and Minneapolis that are routinely hailed as being ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    St. Louis: Bigger than Tampa, Smaller than Wichita

    flickr.com/photos/chrism70Wichita, a true metropolis.The U.S. Census Bureau today released its population estimates for 2008. According to the estimate, the population of St. Louis declined for the first time in four years with the bureau estimating that 354,361 people lived in the city in 2008 -- d ... More >>

  • News

    May 27, 2009

    Ask a Mexican: Why Mexicans hold their ladies' licenses, pack napkins in dispensers and are so damn laid-back

    flickr.com/photos/chrism70Wichita, a true metropolis.The U.S. Census Bureau today released its population estimates for 2008. According to the estimate, the population of St. Louis declined for the first time in four years with the bureau estimating that 354,361 people lived in the city in 2008 -- d ... More >>

  • News

    April 15, 2009

    ¡Ask A Mexican!: A Small Drink of Water: Do illegals cause water shortages?

    flickr.com/photos/chrism70Wichita, a true metropolis.The U.S. Census Bureau today released its population estimates for 2008. According to the estimate, the population of St. Louis declined for the first time in four years with the bureau estimating that 354,361 people lived in the city in 2008 -- d ... More >>

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  • News

    November 1, 2006

    Going Native

    Kathy Dickerson is fed up with people pretending to be American Indians.

  • News

    March 6, 2002

    Giants' Lesson: Part 1

    Building a baseball stadium without buckets of public money

  • News

    November 14, 2001

    Ms. Step

    Merline Anderson let Leslie Hamilton prey on STEP's female employees and clients. The social-services agency had to settle a bruising lawsuit, but Anderson's still in charge.

  • News

    October 25, 2000

    Prop B: Voters vs. the Phantoms

    It’s not sweeping campaign reform, but it is a good idea whose time has come.

  • News

    July 26, 2000

    The Hard Knock That Won't Stop

    Determined to make a better life for themselves and their children, students at the Fathers' Support Center make a go of parenthood in the 'hood

  • News

    April 19, 2000

    Waiting for Dubya

    The presidential candidate is a late arrival to the nation's health-care crisis

  • News

    March 29, 2000

    Missing the Big Picture

    Missouri's tax system needs an overhaul, not a holiday

  • News

    December 22, 1999

    IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE ST. LOUIS

    Jobs are leaving, the tax base is shrinking and the population is dropping. North County is feeling the squeeze.

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