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...hundred twenty years later, lawmakers are so unpopular, it's a wonder people fight over the means of getting more of them - except that nowadays about $400 billion per year in federal aid follows the Census numbers, for everything from jobs to bridges to schools, so this really matters. (Watch an interview with Census Director Robert Groves...
...spots on Spanish radio and soap operas and Dora the Explorer. The ads are meant to boost the response rate, since any household that doesn't mail back its form gets visited by a Census worker, another pricey line item. In all, it will work out to about $49 per person, which makes you wonder whether the government should have just sent an e-mail instead of a packet that looks like junk mail. (How about spending a little more money on design?) But the Census officials worried about privacy, so the increasingly irrelevant post office, whose volume dropped...
...offered even more substantial financial-aid increases. As it stands, $13.5 billion will be used to stem Pell Grant shortfalls resulting from the increased number of students forced back to college by the ailing economy. And a plan to raise the maximum Pell amount to almost $7,000 per year by 2020 has been replaced with one that maxes out at about...
...affordability, lithium-ion battery packs currently cost about $1,000 per kilowatt-hour of capacity. Which means the GM Volt's 16-kW-h battery pack alone would cost $16,000, according to some industry analysts. The price per kilowatt-hour has to fall below $500 to make production viable - and it will. (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...
...peak of the norovirus outbreak at Emerson late last month, about 10 to 13 students per day went to the medical center for symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, said Andrew Tiedemann, Emerson’s vice president for communications and marketing, in an interview with The Globe...