Author: Mike Schneider
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Census Bureau pauses changing how it asks about disabilities following backlash
Facing growing backlash, the U.S. Census Bureau has paused plans to change how it asks people about disabilities in its most comprehensive survey
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Years of fruitful relations between Disney, Florida at risk
ORLANDO, Fla. • The idea was presented to Florida lawmakers in a movie house outside Orlando 55 years ago, with Walt Disney, who had died less than two months earlier, helping make the pitch from the screen: Let Disney form its own government and in exchange it would create a futuristic city of tomorrow. That…
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Some minority groups missed at higher rate in 2020 U.S. census
WASHINGTON • Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were missed at higher rates than a decade ago during the 2020 census, according to a report released Thursday that evaluated how well the once-a-decade head count tallied every U.S. resident. Even though the 2020 census missed an unexpectedly small percentage of the total U.S. population given…
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Anomalies found in data put census deadline in jeopardy
WASHINGTON • The director of the Census Bureau said Thursday that irregularities have been found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census, a development that jeopardizes the statistical agency’s ability to meet a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule…
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Census Bureau denies fake data allegations by census workers
WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Census Bureau denied any attempts to systemically falsify information during the 2020 head count used to determine the allocation of congressional seats and federal spending, even as more census takers told The Associated Press they were pressured to do so. The Census Bureau statement was issued Monday night in response to…
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Disney to lay off 28,000 at its parks in California, Florida
ORLANDO, Fla. • Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday that it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in its parks division in California and Florida. Two-thirds of the planned layoffs involve part-time workers, but they ranged from salaried employees…
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2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents…
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2020 Census to be printed without citizenship question
WASHINGTON — Days after the U.S. Supreme Court halted the addition of a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau has started the process of printing the questionnaire without the controversial query. Trump administration attorneys notified parties in lawsuits challenging the question that the printing of the hundreds of millions of documents…
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49 victims of Pulse massacre remembered in daylong services
ORLANDO, Fla. — Church bells tolled 49 times, a giant rainbow flag hung from a county government building and the names of the victims of the Pulse nightclub attack were read aloud at various ceremonies Monday as people in Orlando and beyond remembered the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history. At 2:02 a.m., survivors,…
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Sheriff: Fired worker killed 5, shot self as siren neared
ORLANDO, Fla. — A man who was fired from a Florida awning factory in April returned Monday with a semi-automatic pistol and methodically killed five people, then took his own life at the sound of an approaching siren, authorities said. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings identified the shooter as John Robert Neumann Jr., a 45-year-old…