Census

Kansas City, Missouri (Reuters) - One of the newest businesses in Smith County, Kansas is a gravestone maker. This land of flat prairie boasts two claims to fame. Smith County is the geographic center of the 48 contiguous U.S. states, marked by a…

This morning, the Labor Department released its employment data for December, showing that the U.S. economy ended the year by adding 113,000 Private Sector jobs, knocking the Unemployment Rate down sharply from 9.8 percent to 9.4 percent —…

Yesterday Republicans got themselves in a bit of Controversy by deciding to edit out certain parts of the United States Constitution before reading the document aloud before the House of Representatives.  Most notably, the GOP decided to leav…

A new PPP poll of Pennsylvania voters finds President Obama in good position to again carry the important Swing State in 2012 as he did two years ago. In the poll, Obama led all hypothetical challengers, including the state's former Senator Rick…

Today the Republicans are having the United States Constitution read before conducting any other business in the House of Representatives.  The Republicans have presented to move as an attempt to return to the founding principles of the Ameri…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- States set to gain congressional representatives have larger Hispanic populations than other states, the Pew Hispanic Center said Wednesday. The center analyzed 2010 Census data. Researchers found the percentage of elig…

The 10thcongressional district may lose its favorite advocate, Rep Dennis Kucinich. According to the latest Census, the district loss residents.This may cause a reshuffling of district lines. One proposed arrangement would be giving more control t…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of poor people in the U.S. is millions higher than previously known, with one in 6 Americans — many of them 65 and older — struggling in Poverty due to rising medical care and other costs. Preliminary…