…been designated “chronically” homeless from the previous year, the county said. The Point-In-Time count, or PIT, was undertaken on a single day in January and was a census of sorts…
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College Board revises plans for single ‘adversity score’ as tool in admissions
…single number to each individual was misleading. However, the revised version doesn’t add anything that was not previously available to college admissions offices from high school profiles or census block…
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Minimum-wage workers will see pay boosts on Jan. 1
…says. According to United Ways of California’s Real Cost Measure, which uses multiple data sources including census data to calculate the cost of living, a household with two adults, a…
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McNerney says he won’t run for another term, opening seat to three challengers
…Census. https://www.facebook.com/jerrymcnerney/posts/346160383997077 The 9th District includes parts of San Joaquin, Contra Costa and Sacramento counties. In San Joaquin County, McNerney assisted in securing investments in infrastructure, childcare, education, and other…
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Santa Clara County leaders seek to house 100 homeless youths in 100 days
…county’s most recent homeless census, taken earlier this year, there are about 1,876 unaccompanied youths and young adults on the streets of the county, almost all of them — 95-percent…
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How Philadelphia’s Black churches overcame disease, depression and civil strife
…in today’s dollars. About 100 years later, the University of Pennsylvania’s Congregation Census study found that approximately 2.4% of the Black congregations in the city had established commercial ventures including…
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State may push cities and counties to draw ‘fairer’ legislative districts
…go into effect next year, just in time for the next round of mapmaking after the 2020 census. For the hundreds of cities that have, like Placentia, been forced to…
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Future may not be so golden for state’s next wave of retirees
…on an analysis of microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey and its 2014 Survey on Income and Program Participation. View the Labor Center’s data brief at http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/california-retirement-savings/. Story…
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Is California’s ethnic studies plan too politically correct even for California?
…to the rest of the country. The U.S. Census has determined that, by 2060, America will, like California, be majority-minority. “As a state I think that we really excel in…
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A glimpse at the unemployed in the Bay Area
…chronic unemployment. An especially low rate, like San Francisco’s, can indicate that more people in each household must work to make ends meet. Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS table S2301…