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Article via mapbynik: Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population

Nobody lives here: The nearly 5 million Census Blocks with zero population Excerpt: A Block is the smallest area unit used by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating statistics. As […]

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Article via PennStateNews: Why is the Census Important?

Probing Question: Why is the census important? Every ten years, the U.S. Census Bureau undertakes a mammoth task: tallying up all the people living in the United States and recording […]

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NEWS via NBCNews: With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct

With Migration, Indigenous Languages Going Extinct BY CARMEN SESÍN HOMESTEAD, FL – Her name is Spanish in origin, but for Juana Sales, a migrant farm-worker from the Guatemalan high lands, it […]

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NEWS via TheAtlanticCities.com: America’s 1,000 Richest Neighborhoods

America’s 1,000 Richest Neighborhoods RICHARD FLORIDA MAR 13, 2014 Carolyn Williams/Flickr America’s “one percent” are a privileged bunch. It takes an adjusted gross income of almost $400,000 to be counted among those […]

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NEWS via NPR: Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists

Who Had Richer Parents, Doctors Or Artists A few weeks ago, we were sitting around the office arguing over this simple question: Who had richer parents, journalists or people working […]

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