Though we can go anywhere, we do love our cities.
By Alexis Garrett Stodghill On the heels of reports that America has more minority than white babies for the first time, the Gerber baby food company has decided to revise its iconic logo. The infant that has represented its brand for decades will be expanded from being a single Caucasian tot into a rainbow of […]
The Hispanic population is officially the country’s second-largest group, but what are the political and social ramifications?
Flight could dilute and shift black political power.
(Washington Examiner) — The District recorded its first population increase in more than half a century and topped 600,000 residents for the first time in 20 years, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 population counts released Tuesday. And while Virginia posted double-digit growth, its and Maryland’s population growth rate slowed during the past decade, […]
(The Network Journal) — The 2010 census report coming out Tuesday will include a boatload of good political news for Republicans and grim data for Democrats hoping to re-elect President Barack Obama and rebound from last month’s devastating elections. The population continues to shift from Democratic-leaning Rust Belt states to Republican-leaning Sun Belt states, a […]
(Time) — America’s neighborhoods became more integrated last year than during any time in at least a century as a rising black middle class moved into fast-growing white areas in the South and West. Still, ethnic segregation in many parts of the U.S. persisted, particularly for Hispanics. Segregation among blacks and whites fell in roughly […]
(New York Times) — Metropolitan New York is being rapidly reshaped as blacks, Latinos, Asians and immigrants surge into the suburbs, while gentrification by whites is widening the income gap in neighborhoods in Manhattan and Brooklyn, according to new census figures released on Tuesday. Some of the largest population gains since 2000 were recorded in […]
(Washington Post) — Emogene Mitchell spent two decades in the cocoon of a multinational research institute, rising to vice president in charge of events planning. Then the economy tanked, and the workload shriveled. In the heart of the Great Recession, Mitchell was ready to join the soaring number of minorities and women who are starting their […]
(New York Times) — It was a finely honed machine, this United States Census team, and it had a good run. But in the coming days and weeks, many of its members will experience the pain of unemployment — once again. Christine Egan, a 31-year-old massage therapist, says her census job offered shelter from the economic […]
Who constitutes "the new mainstream?" Guy Garcia discusses how multicultural consumers are redefining American business.
The Black church aide Census Bureau in ensuring the whole nation is counted.