Rich Benjamin, AlterNet. December 19, 2009. As the Census "time bomb" ticks, fear mounts over a perceived loss of whites' raw power - demographic, social, economic, and political.
Afton Branche, DMI Blog. October 20, 2009. Undocumented immigrants and their families are an integral part of the social and economic fabric of our country. As such, they should be fully counted in our national census.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. September 29, 2009. Oddly, supporters of the boycott find themselves on the same side as immigration hard-liners, who also want the undocumented excluded from the 2010 Census.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 28, 2009. Bachmann has waged a high-profile campaign against the Census, claiming that the data collected had been used to round up and intern Japanese-Americans in the 1940s.
Adele Stan, AlterNet AlterNet: PEEK. September 24, 2009. In what authorities are describing as "an apparent homicide," Census worker Bill Sparkman was found dead in a Kentucky forest, hanging from a tree.
Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. September 22, 2009. No longer restricted by the Bush administration, the Bureau has released data on some 150,000 married same-sex couples.
Marcelo Ballve, New America Media. May 4, 2009. One influential group of Latino evangelical pastors said it would call for a census boycott among undocumented immigrants. Not everyone is on board.
Cristina F. Pereda, New America Media. February 17, 2009. Latinos have been under-counted in previous census counts and Latino organizations are trying to change that.
Deb Price, AlterNet. November 3, 2008. Lawmakers need data that tell truthful stories about America's diverse households -- yet another reason DOMA needs to get wheeled to the curb.
Roberto Lovato, Of America AlterNet: PEEK. August 18, 2008. We must understand and prepare for the implications of such profound shifts in the demographic order.
