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Bay Area Has Highest Income Inequality in California

It’s official: The gap between the Bay Area’s haves and have-nots is wider than anywhere else in the state. Top income earners in the Bay Area make 12.2 times as much as those at the bottom of the economic ladder, according to new research from the Public Policy Institute of...

With Births Down, U.S. Had Slowest Growth Rate in a Century

ORLANDO, Fla. — The past year’s population growth rate in the United States was the slowest in a century due to declining births, increasing deaths and the slowdown of international migration, according to figures released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau. The U.S. grew from 2018 to 2019 by almost...

Facebook to Tackle Efforts to Interfere With 2020 US Census

SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook plans to clamp down on attempts to use its services to interfere with the 2020 U.S. census, including the posting of misleading information about when and how to participate, who can participate and what happens when people do. Facebook and other social media companies have been...

Padilla on Census, Voter Fraud, and His Future

Secretary of State Alex Padilla is a busy man. Not only is he responsible for running a statewide election in less than 90 days, he is also leading California's census count effort. Padilla, in the middle of his second term as secretary of state, recently visited Fresno, chairing a day-long...

What's Slatic's Legal Strategy? Filings Provide a Clue.

A Fresno Unified trustee says a restraining order filed against him by a Bullard High School student is frivolous and politically motivated. Terry Slatic returns to court Monday afternoon for a hearing on the restraining order sought by the 16-year old cheerleader. The student filed the request shortly after Slatic...

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