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WASHINGTON -- The days of the census taker with clipboard in hand may be numbered. The Census Bureau plans to test digital tools in preparation for the 2020 census, a change that could save millions of dollars.People may be asked to fill out their census forms on the Internet instead of sending them through the mail. Census takers may use smartphones instead of paper to complete their counts.The once-a-decade stanley cup count is used to draw congressional maps and helps determine how the government spends $400 billion on infrastructure, programs and services each year. Despite outreach and advertising campaigns, the share of occupied homes that returned a form was 74 percent in 2010, unchanged from 2000 and 1990. The majority of the money the bureau spends during a census goes to getting everyone else to fill out their forms, Census Director John H. Thompson said.2010 stanley cup census missed 1.5 million minoritiesIn the Savannah, Georgia, area and in Maricopa County, Arizona, census workers this year will be asking people to respond on the Internet instead of filling out the traditional forms with such questions as age, race and homeownership. During follow-up visits for those who don t answer, census workers will forgo using paper and instead input answers directly into their smartphones for instantaneous c stanley cup ollection and analysis. In addition, in Savannah and nearby South Carolina, census officials will test an Internet response system that will only Sjsf Rick Perry seeks to reboot after oops moment
Want the latest sign of Senate GOP recruiting woes The current Repu stanley mug blican frontrunner to challenge Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. , state senator Joe Pennacchio, wrote a controversial booklet in 1991 stanley thermobecher calling for a Nationalist Agenda that includes a proposal to round up the homeless and house them in military barracks.His primary opponent, libertarian Murray Sabrin, called the document a fascist manifesto. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave R-Colo. sent out a fundraising letter claiming that the Republican party is just too tapped out to spend money on the lsquo maller racesrsquo; like ours. Musgrave won re-election in 2006 with only just 46 percent of the vote and faces another competitive re-election campaign this year. The hotly-contested Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Tom Davisrsquo; R-Va. seat has already turned negative. EMILYrsquo List recently sent out a mailer on behalf of former Rep. Leslie Byrne D , accusing Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly of bullying, over-the-top tactics and for helping his campaign contributors receive lucra stanley thermoskannen tive contracts. EMILYrsquo List also endorsed Democratic state senator Kay Hagan, who is running in the Democratic primary for the right to run against Sen. Elizabeth Dole R-N.C. . ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c86a
WASHINGTON -- The days of the census taker with clipboard in hand may be numbered. The Census Bureau plans to test digital tools in preparation for the 2020 census, a change that could save millions of dollars.People may be asked to fill out their census forms on the Internet instead of sending them through the mail. Census takers may use smartphones instead of paper to complete their counts.The once-a-decade stanley cup count is used to draw congressional maps and helps determine how the government spends $400 billion on infrastructure, programs and services each year. Despite outreach and advertising campaigns, the share of occupied homes that returned a form was 74 percent in 2010, unchanged from 2000 and 1990. The majority of the money the bureau spends during a census goes to getting everyone else to fill out their forms, Census Director John H. Thompson said.2010 stanley cup census missed 1.5 million minoritiesIn the Savannah, Georgia, area and in Maricopa County, Arizona, census workers this year will be asking people to respond on the Internet instead of filling out the traditional forms with such questions as age, race and homeownership. During follow-up visits for those who don t answer, census workers will forgo using paper and instead input answers directly into their smartphones for instantaneous c stanley cup ollection and analysis. In addition, in Savannah and nearby South Carolina, census officials will test an Internet response system that will only Sjsf Rick Perry seeks to reboot after oops moment
Want the latest sign of Senate GOP recruiting woes The current Repu stanley mug blican frontrunner to challenge Sen. Frank Lautenberg D-N.J. , state senator Joe Pennacchio, wrote a controversial booklet in 1991 stanley thermobecher calling for a Nationalist Agenda that includes a proposal to round up the homeless and house them in military barracks.His primary opponent, libertarian Murray Sabrin, called the document a fascist manifesto. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave R-Colo. sent out a fundraising letter claiming that the Republican party is just too tapped out to spend money on the lsquo maller racesrsquo; like ours. Musgrave won re-election in 2006 with only just 46 percent of the vote and faces another competitive re-election campaign this year. The hotly-contested Democratic primary for retiring Rep. Tom Davisrsquo; R-Va. seat has already turned negative. EMILYrsquo List recently sent out a mailer on behalf of former Rep. Leslie Byrne D , accusing Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly of bullying, over-the-top tactics and for helping his campaign contributors receive lucra stanley thermoskannen tive contracts. EMILYrsquo List also endorsed Democratic state senator Kay Hagan, who is running in the Democratic primary for the right to run against Sen. Elizabeth Dole R-N.C. . ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-c86a
