A record 25.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the 2014 midterm elections, making up, for the first time, 11% of all eligible voters nationwide. But despite a growing national presence, in many states with close Senate and gubernatorial races this year, Latinos make up a smaller share of […] Read more »
Where We Came From, State by State
Foreign immigration is a hot topic these days, but the movement of people from one state to another can have an even bigger influence on the United States’ economy, politics and culture. … The following charts document domestic migration since the turn of the last century, based on census data. […] Read more »
GOP enjoys advantage in fight for House control
Even if Democrats recruit great candidates, raise gobs of money and run smart campaigns, they face an uphill fight to retake control of the House in this year’s congressional elections, regardless of the political climate in November. The reason? Republican strategists spent years developing a plan to take advantage of […] Read more »
Republicans Versus an Informed Public
At regular intervals, congressional Republicans take aim at government surveys, vowing to end or curtail them for being too intrusive. The latest target is the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Begun in 2005 with bipartisan support, the survey polls about three million people a year on family configurations, educational levels, […] Read more »
Trove of Information From the 1930s, Animated by the Internet
In 1932, when Charles O. Paullin published his monumental Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States, reviewers were overwhelmed by its nearly 700 maps covering seemingly every facet of the country’s social, economic and political life, including maps, then novel, showing county-by-county results for presidential elections going back […] Read more »
Seeking a Poverty Measure for the Next 50 Years
… A 1995 report by a National Academy of Sciences panel outlined ways to update the poverty measure, and the Census Bureau adopted many of these recommendations in its 2011 introduction of the Supplemental Poverty Measure. … But SPM remains experimental, and is released at least a month and a […] Read more »