Arizona’s Hispanics made up just over 30 percent of the overall state population for the first time in 2012, as the state’s minorities continued their steady growth, according to Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.... Read more»
Arizona Secretary of State Ken Bennett testified last week in support of a congressional bill aimed at keeping people from voting in multiple states, comparing it to a similar system pioneered by Arizona.... Read more»
Arizona public schools again had some of the lowest per-pupil spending in the nation in 2011, ahead of only Oklahoma, Idaho and Utah, according to a recent Census Bureau report, which said Arizona spent an average of $7,666 per student, well below the national average of $10,560.... Read more»
Officials in the Phoenix suburb of Buckeye said they were not particularly surprised when recent Census estimates showed their town was the ninth-fastest-growing city in the country in 2012.... Read more»
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg told David Letterman that “for the first time in the history of the world, more people will die from overeating than under-eating this year.” After Letterman expressed surprise, Bloomberg added: “It’s all happened in the last 20 years.”... Read more»
Andrew Clegg’s commute from his Arizona City home to his former job in Maricopa County took 45 to 90 minutes on a good day – hours if there was a wreck on Interstate 10. The Census Bureau last week confirmed what Clegg knew: It wasn’t the distance that made the trip so long, it was the tens of thousands of others heading in the same direction at the same time.... Read more»
Two computer data training sessions next month will teach local nonprofit leaders how to use Census data to enhance grant applications.... Read more»
Arizona was fairly giving this election season, kicking in at least $16 million to presidential candidates, according to the Federal Election Commission. “At least” being the operative phrase. The FEC does not require campaigns to detail the source of every nickel and dime donated to a candidate, even though unitemized “small gifts” accounted for $372.5 million of the $1.3 billion donated to presidential campaigns in the last election.... Read more»1
A Maricopa County analysis found that provisional ballots cast in the general election had more do with the number of people on a precinct’s permanent early voting list than any other factor, officials say.... Read more»
A Cronkite News Service analysis of national and state data found that Arizona voters living in precincts with higher percentages of minorities had a greater chance of casting provisional ballots in the Nov. 6 election.... Read more»1
Calls for reform of redistricting — the once-a-decade process when states draw new district maps for Congress and state legislatures — have gone largely unheeded as legislators manipulate Census numbers for partisan gain.... Read more»
The Prescott metro area ranks seventh-highest in the nation for the percentage of people who worked out of their homes in 2010, at 7.6 percent.... Read more»
Women earned more than men in just 12 of the nation’s 435 congressional districts in 2011, and one of those districts was Arizona’s CD4. Tucson-area CD8 posted the state’s largest wage gap, with men earning nearly $12,500 more than women.... Read more»2
Tucson had the sixth highest level of poverty in 2011 out of all the nation’s largest metropolitan areas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Local officials identify the city’s economic struggles, but point to education as the key to getting more jobs and higher-paying jobs in the region.... Read more»10
The portion of Arizonans living in poverty hit 19 percent last year, the sixth-highest rate in the nation, according to new data from the Census Bureau. It was the third straight increase in the poverty rate for Arizona.... Read more»1
A growing number grandparents in Arizona, and across the country, find themselves struggling to raise their grandchildren in their retirement years. Despite the growing numbers, advocates say caregiving grandparents get little financial or other support.... Read more»
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