Pius XII Memorial Library Government Documents

No I am not making this up — headline in a USA Today article, “Pentagon envisions spaceship troopers.” Of course the DOD has been ramping up for space warfare (dominance is their term of choice) for years. However, given the current financial situation perhaps the money would be better spent tilting at windmills.

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We in docs-land are often ask how many homeless are there? The Census Bureau does not directly count these folks; they use  a category of “group quarters” to nail down a number. There are numerous studies and estimates in Census land and they did attempt to make a count in 1990 but that proved ineffective.
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This Press release on housing from the Bureau of the Census seems quite timely.  It is reassuring (!?) that…
“Slightly less than 3 million homes had broken windows; slightly more than 3 million had bars on the windows.”
The full report– 2007 American Housing Survey (AHS) is online.

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Hey, it is not so bad. The 700 billion dollar bailout comes to only about $6119.73 per U.S. Household;  chump change my friends. Don’t like my calculations, try the Census Bureau web site, get some numbers and make up your own scenerio — its fun and it is free!

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Watch the campaign’s reaction when this Census Bureau press release is released:

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance

The U.S. Census Bureau will release the 2007 report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage for the nation at a news conference on Aug. 26, 2008, at 10 a.m. (EDT). The data are derived from the Annual Social [...]

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If you want a sense of Missouri demographics, you need to bookmark the MCDC site. The fine folks at the Missouri Census Data Center put out great data on a wide array of demographic topics — the latest considers the loss or gain of population for St. Louis City.

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Count me in St. Louis…

Thanks to the work of J. Swoboda and a number of tireless graduate students EVERYONE will soon be able to access the St. Louis Census data at the tract geographic level. Published by the Bureau of the Census from 1930 until 1980 and previously only accessible using the old-fashioned analog paper [...]

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The Census Bureau is ramping up for the 2010 Decennial Census and unfortunately it looks to be a miscount. The New York Times reports that not only is the count underfunded, but the Commerce department’s leadership is mismanaging the process. A Census “sweepstakes” is the most pathetic proposal (as detailed in the NYT). And a close read of the history [...]

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Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) have just been released for 2005 and Missouri keeps losing ground in the category — Under age 18 in poverty. The 2005 estimate is now 19.5% continuing a climb from a low of 14.8% in 2000.

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“Why did the mapmaker [Martin Waldseemuller] name the territory America and then change his mind later? How was he able to draw South America so accurately? Why did he put a huge ocean west of America years before European explorers discovered the Pacific?” [Read on.]
Early Americas Opens
Northwest Gallery Second floor Thomas Jefferson [...]

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