Gregory Korte's Links
staff writer, The Cincinnati Enquirer
Cincinnati, OH
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Gregory said:
The U.S. Census Bureau's Cincinnati Central office has met its overall recruiting goals, but has still fallen short in the hardest-to-count census tracts - leading census officials to extend the application deadline for a third time.
Added: March 12, 2010 at 6:17PM EST
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Gregory said:
Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky annually receives more than $2.1 billion in federal aid distributed based on census statistics, according to a report released Tuesday.
Added: March 10, 2010 at 3:18PM EST
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Gregory said:
U.S. Rep. William "Lacy" Clay Jr., chairman of the House census subcommittee, called Cincinnati "a perfect microcosm of hard-to-count groups."
Added: March 10, 2010 at 3:17PM EST
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Gregory said:
The 2010 Census presents an unprecedented challenge for census takers: Counting people where they live even as the economy is uprooting them from their homes in record numbers.
Added: March 8, 2010 at 9:56AM EST
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Gregory said:
A congressional subcommittee will hold a special field hearing on the 2010 Census in Cincinnati next Monday to investigate problems counting minority groups, college students and families losing their homes to foreclosure.
Added: March 4, 2010 at 12:09PM EST
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Gregory said:
It's a low-income neighborhood that includes playgrounds, Findlay Market and 19th-century brewery buildings. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, this part of Over-the-Rhine and the West End also is the hardest-to-count neighborhood in Ohio.
Added: March 1, 2010 at 9:58AM EST
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Gregory said:
Faced with a shortage of applications from key city neighborhoods, Cincinnati's census office has pushed back the deadline to apply for field worker positions to March 5.
Added: February 24, 2010 at 4:58PM EST
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Gregory said:
The U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development will visit Avondale Thursday as part of a blitz by top Obama administration officials to mark the one-year anniversary of the stimulus program this week.
Added: February 17, 2010 at 11:26AM EST
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Gregory said:
Last July, Vice President Joe Biden stood in front of a hulking, five-story abandoned factory in Northside with good news: The federal government had approved $1.6 million in stimulus money to help transform the American Can Building into new stores and apartments. The project would create 100 construction jobs - proof, Biden said, that the stimulus was putting people to work. Seven months later, the project remains stalled, and has yet to make good on that promise.
Added: February 17, 2010 at 11:24AM EST
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Gregory said:
When the U.S. Census Bureau drew up a $340 million campaign to remind, implore and nag Americans to fill out their census forms, Cincinnati was first on the map.
Added: January 5, 2010 at 10:52AM EST
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