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May 5 2010
Audit: Computer glitches hurting census
May 5th, 2010 
Tommy A new audit questions whether the 2010 census can stick to its $15 billion budget because of computer problems that are forcing substantial overtime work.
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May 1 2010
Census workers get ready for door-to-door count
May 1st, 2010 Tommy It sounds simple enough. Knock on some doors, ask some questions, get some answers.
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May 1 2010
GAO: Census has computer problem
May 1st, 2010 Tommy A computer system that the Census Bureau needs to manage its door-to-door count of the U.S. population remained buggy and prone to crash a day before enumerators were set to begin their work, government officials said Friday.
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April 28 2010
Census mail results could be trouble for 5 states
April 28th, 2010 Tommy Five states — New York, California, Texas, Arizona and Florida — are perilously close to losing out on congressional seats because of lackluster participation in the U.S. census.
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April 20 2010
Census: Women equal to men in college degrees
April 20th, 2010 Tommy 
Women are now just as likely than men to have completed college and are virtually equal in earning advanced degrees.
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April 19 2010
Black or biracial? Census forces some to choose
April 19th, 2010 Tommy 
Although the 2010 census results are expected to show an increase in the number of multiracial people, some African-Americans with one white parent are deciding to simply “stay black.”
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April 13 2010
Many U.S. Muslims wary of Census surveys
April 13th, 2010 Tommy 
Nine years of scrutiny have made some American Muslims wary of the government, and that has the Census Bureau working to make sure its survey doesn’t become a casualty of fear.
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April 12 2010
Census: No evidence of a conservative boycott
April 12th, 2010 Tommy Census Bureau director Robert Groves says he is heartened by the high level of participation so far in the 2010 census, with no indications of a conservative boycott.
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April 9 2010
Newer techniques transform face of census
April 9th, 2010 Tommy 
India’s census, the biggest ever in the world, could mark a move toward real-time database-driven counting that leaves the U.S. far behind. An msnbc.com-CNBC special report.
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