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Census data is used to allocate federal funds, which sometimes target specific populations. In the case of Portuguese-speaking Cantabrigians, such funds would go toward social services and educational programs in Portuguese.

Author: By Cora K. Currier, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Census Expected to Count 'Hidden' Groups | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Are you a cynical Harvard student and going to ask why you should do it? Because it is only seven questions long for students and because it is the primary way governments know how to distribute services and how Washington distributes over $400 billion in federal money. Funding for everything...

Author: By Punit N. Shah, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Get Counted | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Tests for people attempting to join the Complete Count local liaison group have been conducted for over a year on a rolling basis, according to Waldon. The group’s key roles have been to publicize widely that the census is coming, that the census process is easy, that...

Author: By Rediet T. Abebe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Census Reaches Out to Undergraduate Students | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Workers from Unite Here! Local 26—the Boston area hospitality union—as well as representatives from other local hotels and businesses spoke in support of and against a resolution that would prohibit hotels in Cambridge from subcontracting housekeeping services. The resolution was passed unanimously.

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: City Council Passes Two Resolutions on Cambridge Labor | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

Several years ago, Tokyo's bustling Shinjuku ward began a lonely-death awareness campaign. It hosts social events to draw people from their apartments, distributes a newsletter to the elderly and monitors their well-being by, for example, checking to make sure they're taking out their trash. Other wards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's 'Lonely Deaths': A Business Opportunity | 4/6/2010 | See Source »

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