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The U.S. economy lost jobs in June, for the first time this year, as modest hiring by businesses only partly offset the end of Census jobs.

Don't mess with Texas! Cities in the Lone Star State were among the fastest growing places in 2009.

Federal programs will dole out more than $500 billion a year over the next decade based on data collected through the 2010 Census, according to a study released Tuesday.

Most of the mobile homes in the U.S. are located in the south, where land is more plentiful, the weather is warmer, and rural poverty is higher.

A new study from the government Tuesday showed a wide disparity in health care coverage across the United States.

The grants were awarded as part of the Count Me In initiative, an effort funded by ten grantmakers to increase the mail-back rate of census forms in thirty-seven Illinois counties that are hard to count....

The funding will support outreach efforts in ten California counties that have been identified as among the hardest to count in the nation — counties that are home to large populations that have been historically underrepresented in the census....

The nation is becoming even more diverse: More than one third of its population belongs to a minority group, and Hispanics are the fastest-growing segment.