Census Bureau
WAP2000051601 - 16 MAY 2000- WASHINGTON, D.C. USA: Census Bureau director Dr. Kenneth Prewitt speaks at a press conference in Washington May 16. The census bureau reported today that one third of the houses which did not mail back a census form have been counted. mc/Mark Cowan UPI
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U.S. wholesale inventories rose by 0.4 percent in March to a seasonally adjusted $503.1 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday.
Nearly 70 percent of Hispanic high school graduates enrolled in college last fall, a higher rate than white U.S. students, Pew Research Center reports.
Black voters had a higher turnout than whites in the 2012 presidential election for the first time, a U.S. Census Bureau report says.
Factory orders for U.S. manufactured goods dropped 4 percent in March, falling from an 11-year high, the Commerce Department said Friday.
Sixty-two percent of women in their early 20s who had a child within the previous year in 2011 were unmarried, the U.S. Census Bureau reported Wednesday.
Construction spending dropped 1.7 percent from February to March, the U.S. Census Bureau News reported Wednesday.
Only the richest 7 percent of Americans got richer during the first two years of the economic recovery while the remaining 93 percent got poorer, a report says.
Oil was sent from the United States to China in January but it wasn't of domestic origin, the U.S. Energy Department said.
Rental vacancy rates in the United States fell from 2009 to 2011, while the share of households renting homes rose, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.
Online retail giant Amazon says its new specialty store will cater to the shopping needs of the estimated 80 million Americans age 50 or older.
