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If real, inflation-adjusted wages are up, then why are millions of Americans so down about their economic prospects?
About 1 in 9 Americans are facing poverty today. But more than half of the people residing in the US will experience poverty at some point in their adult lives.
A tax credit expansion played a big role in child poverty reduction. But the government’s failure to reach all eligible Americans meant many families never got that temporary benefit.
Differential privacy lets people to share data anonymously, but people need to know more about it to make informed decisions.
The United States is at risk of lacking data from more than 10 million undocumented immigrants in the 2020 census.
Census data are used to determine federal funding on everything from highway construction to poverty services. With many students heading back to their parents’ homes, college towns may take a hit.
A quarter of Americans, many of them non-white, are worried about data privacy and confidentiality in the 2020 census.
The results of the 1920 census kicked off a bitter, decadelong political squabble. Could the same happen again in 2020?
By 2050, the majority of Americans will not be white. That future is already on its way here – just look at the demographics of kids ages 10 and under.
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