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    Leavenworth County, Kansas. According to the United States Census Bureau (2015), the population is approximately 12,000 people. Of the total population, approximately 23% are under the age of 18 and reside in a family household, while only 8% of the population is 65 years or older (United States Census Bureau, 2015). Lansing, Kansas has one high school (Lansing High School). The average household income is $86,059 (United States Census Bureau, 2015). Leavenworth, Kansas. Leavenworth, Kansas is the

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    Each year, the Census Bureau updates the poverty threshold. According to their website, the official poverty definition uses money income before taxes and excludes capital gains or noncash benefits like public housing, Medicaid, and food stamps. Beyond that, there is also a poverty threshold that measures need. These include the dollar amounts to determine poverty status. It can be individual or by family and varies by the size of the family and age of the members. In a utopian world, there would

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    this group can be found from the US Census Bureau, for the 2010 Census. There are 1,219,137 people in Chicago within this age bracket. The median age of people in this bracket is going to be on the younger side of the mean, because the largest sub-brackets within this age bracket are 30-34 and 35-39. There are 599,952 (49.3%) males and 619,185 females (50.7%). The combined bracket 30-64 encompasses 45.3% of Chicago's total population. The Census Bureau does not appear to publish specific data

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    According, the United State Census Bureau, the U.S. population is increasing, every eight seconds a child is born. With the population increasing sort of rapidly the construction of new neighborhoods it is going to be necessary to house these prospering families. Also, the establishment of stores are going to be needed. Therefore, neighborhood stores are going to become available and malls too, but they both are going to vary in certain aspects. Neighborhood stores are stores that provides accommodations

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    According to the US Census Bureau, as of July 1, 2015 the estimated population of the United States was 321.4 million. Of this number, the percentage of people who identified as Black or African American alone was 13.2 percent. There were no estimates for people who identified as Black or African American in combination with one or more additional races. (Population). According to the 2010 U.S. Census, on April 1, 2010 the U.S. population was 308.7 million and out of that number, 13 percent or 38

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    Lillian Wen Jin Professor Ball HA 96F-21 11/3/2015 The 100 empowering education The Census Bureau released its annual report of income and poverty in September, 2015. In the survey, it points out that among the race groups, non-Hispanic Whites had the lowest poverty rate of 10.1 percent in 2014. And for Asians, the 2014 poverty rate was 12.0 percent. For Hispanics it was 23.6 percent, while for Blacks it was 26.2 percent. The official poverty rate in 2014 was 14.8 percent, which was 0.3 percent higher

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    The United States Census Bureau reported in a recent news release that one in five children receive food stamps. The report continues to notate statistics that this is a dramatic increase from the one in eight children that received benefits prior to the recession as of 2007, and that the number of children living in single parent households has tripled from the information gathered in 1940. (1) These parents struggle on a daily basis to provide for their children in a manner that is barely comfortable

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    December 2012 United States Census Bureau Population Projection, the nation will continue its trend of consistent diversification. By 2024, the non-Hispanic white population will show a decrease in numbers. Minorities including Hispanics, African Americans and Asians will double, and other groups will increase by at least half. Eventually, non-Hispanic whites will not be seen as a majority, but as an equally represented group among its ethnic counterparts (U.S. Bureau, 2014). This projection can

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    According to The United States Census Bureau, the United States population accounts for less than 5 percent of the world population. The United States, however, houses more than 20% of the world inmate population. From 1978 to 2014, there has been a sharp increase of the inmate population to the tune of over 400% - an alarming number that is not likely to decrease anytime soon (ACLU, n.d.). The United States government has placed tougher sanctions and punishments on criminals since the late 1970s

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    As of 2014, the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey reveals 47.6 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 44 do not have children. This percentage is the highest the calculation has been since the bureau started keeping track of this data in 1976. The senior editor of Mic, Elizabeth Plank says women choosing to not have children makes complete sense given the state of the country’s economy, the gender pay gap, and the outrageous cost of raising a child today. Women, especially millennial

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