Publicizing the release of the 1940 U.S. Census data, LIFE
magazine released photographs of Census enumerators collecting
data from household members. Yep, Census enumerators. For almost
200 years, the U.S. counted people and recorded information
about them in person, by sending out a representative of the
U.S. government to evaluate them directly. It wasn’t until 1980
that the government decided to collect Census data by mail-in
survey. The Census Bureau data is out on 2010, and it confirmed
the recession's deep impact on Americans.From the report:
Household income dropped under $50,000 since 2009 to $49,445
46.2 million people were under poverty in 2010, up from 4...
Read Post The U.S. Census Bureau has released an infographic in
honor of Independence Day. The interesting part from a Silicon
Valley perspective? The technology used to collect and analyze
the data. The first census was taken in 1790 with pa... Read
Post For the last week of December, we’re re-posting some of our
favorite posts from 2012. Orig