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Last Updated: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 10:01
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Lucio: Encouraging All South Texans to Complete the Census
BROWNSVILLE, March 7 - It depends on us whether we get the federal funds Texas deserves by how well we respond to the census that begins April 1.
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Border Congressman Passes Census Awareness Resolution
PENITAS, March 4 – The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a resolution designating March 2010 as “Census Awareness Month.”
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Video: Ramirez Stresses Importance of Complete Census Count
EDINBURG, March 3 - Hidalgo County Judge Rene Ramirez has called on county residents to participate in Census 2010 when they get their census forms later this month.
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Treviño: Fear, Misinformation, Big Obstacles to Accurate Census Count
ALAMO, Feb. 24 - Laura Treviño, director of the Texas A&M Colonias Program painted the picture clearly—fear is the biggest obstacle confronting the census worker when he or she knocks on the door of a Hidalgo County colonia household.
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Census Bureau Officials to Visit Little Mexico Tuesday
ALAMO, Feb. 23 - U.S. Census Bureau officials will today visit what they acknowledge to be one of the hardest to count neighborhoods in the nation, “Little Mexico,” home to thousands of colonia residents.
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MALDEF: We have not given up on Governor Perry
AUSTIN, Feb. 20 - The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has not given up hope of Gov. Rick Perry setting up a statewide Complete Count Committee to ensure maximum participation in the 2010 Census.
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Desperate to hire Valley workers, Census Bureau to hold job fair
McALLEN, Feb. 16 - Concerned that it might have to bring in hundreds of workers from outside the Rio Grande Valley to complete its outreach work, the Census Bureau is holding a job fair in McAllen.
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Pew Research poll finds Hispanics less likely to participate in Census
BROWNSVILLE, Feb. 15 - First the good news for the Rio Grande Valley: a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that Hispanics are more likely to view the upcoming Census as very important.
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Census Bureau director visits Laredo colonias
LAREDO, Feb. 2 – U.S. Census Bureau Director Dr Robert Groves made a visit to one the most impoverished of the Laredo colonias, San Carlos in an effort to promote the importance of being counted in the census.
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U.S. Census Bureau director to visit Laredo colonia on Monday
McALLEN, Jan. 29 - U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves will visit a colonia on the outskirts of Laredo on Monday to raise awareness of the 2010 Census throughout the border region.
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Radio show host pleads with Hispanic listeners to be counted in 2010 Census
McALLEN, Jan. 28 - If you have a dinner at your house, send out invitations, receive 20 RSVP’s and prepare accordingly, what do you do if 50 people show up to eat?
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Seifert: Valley's natural sense of community will help census count
BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 26 - The coordinator of Equal Voice for America’s Families in the Rio Grande Valley is confident of a strong census count this year in part because local residents love to gossip.
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Patridge: Valley businesses need to get involved in Census 2010
McALLEN, Jan. 25 - The business community in the Rio Grande Valley should get behind efforts to promote a complete census count in the region, says Keith Patridge, president of the McAllen Economic Development Corporation.
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Fears that outsiders will have to be brought in for Valley census work
ALTON, Jan. 21 - The Census Bureau’s border outreach coordinator fears she will have to recruit thousands of census workers from outside the region, thus weakening the level of trust that could be established in colonias.
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Geese are the latest obstacle facing census workers in the colonias
ALTON, Jan. 20 - By the time its 2010 count is over the U.S. Census Bureau will have hired about 1.4 million people, full-time and part-time. Of these, Mary Lou Cavazos of Weslaco must have the hardest job.
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Cuellar to receive daily reports on census participation levels along border
ALTON, Jan. 21 - U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar is to receive daily reports from the Census Bureau on how many census forms are being returned via mail from the Texas-Mexico border region.
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Seifert: Equal Voice joins with the Guardian to promote 2010 Census
BROWNSVILLE, Jan. 4 - Some 2,000 years ago the Roman government required a census of its peoples.
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