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ACORN and the Census

by Kafir ( 16 Comments › )
Filed under Politics at March 18th, 2009 - 7:27 am

Isn’t this special?

ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census

The U.S. Census is supposed to be free of politics, but one group with a history of voter fraud, ACORN, is participating in next year’s count, raising concerns about the politicization of the decennial survey.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now signed on as a national partner with the U.S. Census Bureau in February 2009 to assist with the recruitment of the 1.4 million temporary workers needed to go door-to-door to count every person in the United States — currently believed to be more than 306 million people.

A U.S. Census “sell sheet,” an advertisement used to recruit national partners, says partnerships with groups like ACORN “play an important role in making the 2010 Census successful,” including by “help[ing] recruit census workers.”
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The census is an official count of the country’s population mandated by the U.S. Constitution. It is used to determine distribution of taxpayer money through grants and appropriations and the apportionment of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives. Every U.S. household unit, including those occupied by non-citizens and illegal immigrants, must be counted.

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Is Israel Guilty of Reverse Ethnic Cleansing?

by WrathofG-d ( 15 Comments › )
Filed under Gaza, Israel, Media, Middle East, Palestinians at February 17th, 2009 - 2:08 pm

An official “Palestinian” census shows that the Arab population of Gaza has grown over 40% in the last 10 years, and should completely double in 21 years.

So much for the unceasing ridiculous claims that Israel is committing “ethnic cleansing” against the so-called “Palestinians”.

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) – The population of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip has passed 1.4 million people, an increase of nearly 40 percent over the past 10 years, an official Palestinian census published Sunday said.

The census found that as of 2007 the population of the territory had reached 1,416,543 compared to 1,022,207 in 1997, with an estimated annual growth rate of 3.3 percent.

“Assuming a stable growth during the coming years, the Gaza Strip population will double in 21 years,” said the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, which carried out the census.

The average family size across Gaza has declined, however, from 6.9 household members to 6.5, according to the census.

The population of the impoverished coastal territory remains overwhelmingly young, with 48.3 percent of residents under 15 years of age. In 1997 50.2 percent of residents were under 15.

The majority of Gaza residents are UN-registered refugees from what is now Israel, constituting 67.9 percent of the population, a slight increase from 1997 when refugees made up 65.1 percent.

The census found increasing literacy in Gaza, with 5.5 percent of the population over 10 years old listed as illiterate in 2007 compared to 11.3 percent in 1997.

The preliminary results from the census released in February 2008 put the entire Palestinian population in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank including east Jerusalem at 3,761,646.

Most Palestinians, 2,345,107, live in the West Bank, an increase of 30 percent in 10 years. The statistics bureau has not yet released final results on the West Bank or east Jerusalem.

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