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They need to be torn down, and restarted from scratch again. The US Census agency is known for frustrating people (those that care at least) but they're really a very incompetent agency to begin with. I think I got counted twice for two different cities.
I think I did too. Another issue is they need to hire people who speak proper English; one dude spoke to me and had VERY poor English to the point where me and him didn't understand each other. I got annoyed and just hung up in his face.
Who would want to live in Chicago? The majority of the people who live there, probably just do so because they are too poor to escape its grip. It's cold, isolated, violent, and segregated.
WASHINGTON, DC--With the April 1 deadline for returning Census 2000 forms finally passed, the Bureau of the Census announced Monday that the U.S. population stands at 13,462.
"We at the Census Bureau are shocked by the incredible decrease in the population that apparently took place in the 10 years since the last Census in 1990," Census Bureau director Kenneth Prewitt said. "A 1999 projection estimated the U.S. population at 274 million and set the annual growth rate at .95 percent. Yet from this latest Census count, we find that this projection overestimates the population by a multiple of 20,000."
Despite the sharp population dip, some data remains consistent with previous censuses. New York remains the nation's largest city, with a population of 664. Los Angeles is a close second with 657, and Chicago a distant third with 329. Surprisingly, the nation's fourth largest city is now Elkhart, IN, with a population of 256. Some suspect that the rise is the result of a citywide "Hey, Elkhart, Come To Your Census!" campaign. The most precipitous decline in urban population was in Houston, TX, formerly America's fourth largest city. In 1990, Houston boasted a population of 1,630,553. In 2000, it is 12.
No one lives in St. Louis.
As a result of the low Census count, hundreds of members of the House of Representatives are now departing Washington. Because the Constitution stipulates that the number of representatives is determined by each state's population, these representatives are finding themselves without the necessary constituents to justify their presence in congress.
"I greatly enjoyed my 20 years in the House," said U.S. Rep. William Skene (R-ID). "Sadly, only one person from my state, Hank, answered the Census, so I will have to tender my resignation."
Who would want to live in Chicago? The majority of the people who live there, probably just do so because they are too poor to escape its grip. It's cold, isolated, violent, and segregated.
Really? You just had to come in here and flame Chicago?
OK, I've spent time in both cities. I can't understand why someone from Philly would come in here to rag on Chicago. You're really in no position to criticize.
Cities and States are stupid if they dont band together and fight the Census Bureau. There are so many points of contention that municipalities can argue that if they just lie down yet again and let the census report without any complaints, then we get what we deserve.
California was undercounted to the tune of 1.5 Million people for freakssake and then the turd director of the Census gets in front of cameras talking bold like they arent going to change no matter what???
If Governor Brown and California's enormous congressional contingency and clout with Obama does nothing about it, then we're the idiots.
And this applies to all the other states who were shafted in 2010.
Really? You just had to come in here and flame Chicago?
OK, I've spent time in both cities. I can't understand why someone from Philly would come in here to rag on Chicago. You're really in no position to criticize.
Just speaking the truth, it should be no surprise that Chicago is still shrinking, Philly on the other hand, is growing again.
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Really? You just had to come in here and flame Chicago?
OK, I've spent time in both cities. I can't understand why someone from Philly would come in here to rag on Chicago. You're really in no position to criticize.
I agree. I'm not going to bash anything here because I legitimately think Philadelphia is a pretty cool city but someone from there complaining about the cold, poverty, crime, & segregation in Chicago?
By poverty rate Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, & Miami are really all comparable. None of them can brag about that, because they all need to work on getting it lower than what it already is. None can say to another that poverty doesn't exist where they are.
Poverty Rate:
- Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
- Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
- Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
- Newark, 26.1% in poverty
- Miami, 25.6% in poverty
- Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
- Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
- Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
- El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
- Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
- Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
- Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
- St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty
- Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
- New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
- Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
- Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
- Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
- Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
- Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
- Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
- Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
- Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
- Houston, 19.5% in poverty
- Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
Here are the homicides and rates for 2010:
In terms of segregation, Chicago is segregated and calling it out is rightfully so but so are New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington DC, & basically everything else in the Northeast & Midwest. They're all comparable in terms of segregation.
I'm not going to rag on any city here, but its kind of contradictory to say Chicago has all these problems (which it does) and try to make it seem like other cities don't when the reality of it all is, Detroit, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, & Philadelphia have all these problems also. (Los Angeles & Houston minus the cold part).
I agree someone. I'm not going to bash anything here because I legitimately think Philadelphia is a pretty cool city but someone from there complaining about the cold, poverty, crime?
By poverty rate Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Houston, & Miami are really all comparable. None of them can brag about that, because they all need to work on getting it lower than what it already is. None can say to another that poverty doesn't exist where they are.
Poverty Rate:
- Detroit, 33.3% in poverty
- Cleveland, 30.5% in poverty
- Buffalo, 30.3% in poverty
- Newark, 26.1% in poverty
- Miami, 25.6% in poverty
- Fresno, 25.5% in poverty
- Cincinnati, 25.1% in poverty
- Toledo, 24.7% in poverty
- El Paso, 24.3% in poverty
- Philadelphia, 24.1% in poverty
- Milwaukee, 23.4% in poverty
- Memphis, 23.1% in poverty
- St. Louis, 22.9% in poverty - Dallas, 22.6% in poverty
- New Orleans, 22.6% in poverty
- Atlanta, 22.4% in poverty
- Stockton, Calif., 21.6% in poverty
- Minneapolis, 21.3% in poverty
- Pittsburgh, 21.2% in poverty
- Tucson, 20.9% in poverty
- Chicago, 20.6% in poverty
- Columbus, Ohio, 20.1% in poverty
- Long Beach, Calif., 19.8% in poverty
- Houston, 19.5% in poverty
- Los Angeles, 19.4% in poverty
Here are the homicides and rates for 2010:
In terms of segregation, Chicago is segregated and calling it out is rightfully so but so are New York, Detroit, Philadelphia, Washington DC, & basically everything else in the Northeast & Midwest. They're all comparable in terms of segregation.
I'm not going to rag on any city here, but its kind of contradictory to say Chicago has all these problems (which it does) and try to make it seem like other cities don't when the reality of it all is, Detroit, Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, & Philadelphia have all these problems also. (Los Angeles & Houston minus the cold part).
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SHOCKING!
No its not.
Did you think all of Dallas was rich because it grew a lot last decade? Or because the Metroplex has 26 Billionaires? And all of the cities on that list, every single one of them have a poverty problem they need to address. And some of them are amongst the largest cities in the country.
No one from Los Angeles can go to someone from Houston or Miami and brag about poverty. No one from Philadelphia should be telling people from Chicago, Miami, Detroit about poverty. They're all very high, every single one of them have a poverty issue that needs to be addressed.
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Did you think all of Dallas was rich because it grew a lot last decade? All of the cities on that list, every single one of them have a poverty problem they need to address. And some of them are amongst the largest cities in the country.
Yeah, Dallas has a poverty problem. Basically everything south of the Trinity River is a poverty stricken area.
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