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With eight months to go before Election Day, a deeply troubling number of Americans say they are struggling to pay their bills. But vast hardship appears to be decreasing substantially, at a good time for President Joe Biden.  As of this month, 36 percent of Americans reported having difficulty paying their usual household expenses, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. That figure is quite high, but it’s a five-point decrease from October, when more than 41 percent of respondents reported…

Colorado suffered the biggest drop in its homeownership rate of any state last year, according to counts from the U.S. Census Bureau. But economists and demographers in the state aren’t buying it. The homeownership rate, a measure of how many households own the place where they live versus renting it, was 69.7% during the fourth quarter of 2022. It moved up to 70.2% in the second quarter of 2023 before plunging to 62.7% in the fourth quarter. No other state came close to matching that 7 percentage point decline last year.…

Steve Chapman’s full house sometimes feels like it’s bursting at the seams. The 45-year-old and his wife welcomed Chapman’s mother and stepdad into their Aurora home a few years ago after his mom’s landlord sold the Loveland trailer the couple lived in, leaving them unable to afford Colorado rent on their Social Security income. “The idea was it’d be temporary to help them get going, but it’s impossible to make it here, it seems,” Chapman said of the living arrangement. Then the Chapmans’ 23-year-old daughter fell on…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Every 10 years since 1801—save for a wartime interruption in 1941—the UK government has conducted a national census of England and Wales. This is a big event. The data collated in the last survey, in 2021, is still being published, with final reports only scheduled for 2025. Yet, doubts have emerged about whether the next one—in 2031—will actually take place. …

Population growth in Colorado accelerated this year, but it remains significantly below the pre-pandemic pace and gains fell short of what state demographers had expected. Colorado added 36,571 people to its population over the past year, bringing the total to 5,877,610 as of July 1 of this year, according to vintage estimates the U.S. Census Bureau released last week. That is up from a gain of 29,443 people in the July 1, 2022, count and 26,377 in the July 1, 2021, count. But even though population gains were 24% higher…

Based on new data analyzed by the San Francisco Chronicle, the U.S. census shows that Hispanic populations are shifting throughout California and have doubled between 2010 and 2020.The data look at how the Hispanic population is diversifying throughout the state and has gone through transformations affecting multiple aspects of the economy, including the workforce and voting.Based on the census data, Dominicans seem to be the Hispanic population with the biggest increase throughout the state within the last decade, with…

District upward IM (gap) and Christian–Muslim population share. a,b, Binned scatterplots of the gap in upward IM between Christians and Muslims (a) against the share of Muslims in the district’s population conditional on country fixed effects (b). Panel b also conditions on the religion-specific shares of the older generation with completed primary education in the district. c,d, Binned within-country scatterplots of upward IM for Christians (c) and…

It looks like Harry Styles’ upcoming visit to New Zealand will involve more than just a concert.The UK singer will be legally required to participate in the country’s census on March 7—the same day of his show, NME reports. The 29-year-old will be performing in Auckland, which is his only New Zealand concert for his Love on Tour global run. A spokesperson from the government’s census team confirmed to the Guardian that Styles will be required to provide his information.Apparently, even foreigners who travel into the…

Harry Styles will have to take part in the 2023 New Zealand census, which aims to capture the country as it was on the same night as his only show in the country.The census is conducted every five years and requires everyone in the country, including overseas visitors, to take part. This year it happens to be held on the night of the British pop star’s Auckland show on 7 March.A spokesperson for the New Zealand government’s census team confirmed to the Guardian on Friday that Styles would have to take part. Any individual…

Data is the collection of measurement and facts and a tool that help an individual or a group of individuals reach a sound conclusion by providing them with some information. It helps the analyst understand, analyze, and interpret different socio-economic problems like unemployment, poverty, inflation, etc. Besides understanding the issues, it also helps in determining the reasons behind the problem to find possible solutions for them. Data not only includes theoretical information but some numerical facts too that can…