America Counts: Stories about Health

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Hispanic, Black Adults More Likely to Report Long COVID-19 Symptoms

Household Pulse Survey began asking about long COVID-19 in 2022 and 31.1% said they still experienced symptoms three months or longer after testing positive.

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Impact of the End of Extra SNAP Benefits

About 1 in 4 households in states that gave SNAP emergency benefits during the pandemic report not having enough to eat now that extra funding has ended.

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Missing Medicaid Data on Race/Ethnicity May Bias Health Research

New research links Census Bureau and Medicaid data to enhance missing race/ethnicity data and improve the study of health disparities.

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Is There a Retail Health Clinic Near You?

There were 2000 clinics providing walk-in health services inside pharmacies and other retailers between 2018 and 2020, mostly in metro areas.

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Losing Our Parents

A new data visualization shows patterns in parent mortality by age, sex, race and ethnicity for 2019 and 2021.

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More Education Does Not Erase Racial Disparities in Health Coverage

Adults with a high school education or less have higher uninsured rates than those more educated. Racial/ethnic inequalities exist even among the more educated.

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Data Products Built by and for Puerto Rican Communities

The Opportunity Project tackled challenges specific to Puerto Rico using open data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other federal agencies.

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How Did Self-Care Industries Perform at Start of Pandemic?

The 2021 Service Annual Survey shows trends in select self-care industries since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Stories U.S. Census Bureau Data Told in 2022

A look at some of the America Counts stories that revealed shifts in our population, from growing diversity and declining poverty to where and how we live.

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LGBT Adults Report Anxiety, Depression at All Ages

The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey provides insight into the mental health and well-being of the LGBT population.

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How Resilient Are Communities Along the U.S.-Mexico Border?

The Community Resilience Estimates show that more people living in the 44 counties along the U.S.-Mexico border are less resilient than the nation as a whole.

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Do Disabilities Impact Older People’s Moves to Other Locations?

About 8.3% of people ages 65 and older with a disability and 5.1% without a disability moved during the prior year from 2015-2019.

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How Marital Status and Children Affect Social Safety Net Participation

An updated interactive data tool allows users to explore household composition and expanded age categories of those who received government benefits in 2020.

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Uninsured Rate Declined in 28 States 2019-2021

Today’s release of the 2021 American Community Survey 1-year estimates shows increase in public health coverage in 36 states.

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Full-Time, Year-Round Workers More Likely to be Uninsured in 2021

The uninsured rate of those who worked less than full time, year-round dropped 1.2 percentage points from 2020 to 2021 as public coverage increased.

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Uninsured Rate of U.S. Children Fell to 5.0% in 2021

A 1.2 percentage point increase in Medicaid and CHIP coverage drove drop in children’s uninsured rate between 2020 and 2021.

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Revenues for Home Care, Elderly Services Increase as Nation Ages

Service Annual Survey shows revenue increased in select service industries from 2013 to 2020.

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Wealth Inequality in the U.S. by Household Type

Census data show persistent inequalities in household wealth in 2019: 38.7% of households did not own a home, and 41.2% did not have a retirement account.

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How Did CARES Act Funding Impact State Revenues, Spending?

The 2020 Annual Survey of State Government Finances captures only three months of the CARES Act funding to state governments but it already shows major impacts.

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LGBT Adults Report Anxiety, Depression During Pandemic

The Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey provides insight into the mental health and well-being of the LGBT population during COVID-19.

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Who Is Receiving Social Safety Net Benefits?

A new data tool allows users to explore thousands of social safety statistics 2013-2019 and demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of recipients.

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Recognizing Nation’s 2.78 Million Administrative Professionals

Secretaries and administrative assistants make up 2% of the workforce, mainly women with lower-than-average earnings.

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Why Study Aging in Africa, Region With World’s Youngest Population?

A U.S. Census Bureau report provides comprehensive statistics on current and future population aging trends and patterns in Africa.

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Exploring Census Data Made Easy

The new Census Survey Explorer provides a quick and comprehensive list of surveys by topic, geography and frequency.

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Fertility Rates: Declined for Younger Women, Increased for Older Women

Despite broader stability in fertility trends, a Census Bureau analysis shows that the age at which U.S. women gave birth changed from 1990 to 2019.

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1950 Census Records: A Window to History

Records for all people counted in the 1950 Census will be released by the National Archives and Records Administration April 1.

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Deaths Outnumbered Births in Half of All States Between 2020 and 2021

Higher deaths and lower fertility during the COVID-19 pandemic led to natural decrease in nearly three-quarters of the nation’s counties.

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U.S. Deaths Spiked as COVID-19 Continued

The United States experienced its largest increase in deaths between 2019 and 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic began.

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U.S. Startups Create Jobs at Higher Rates, Older Large Firms Employ Most Workers

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics show how the age and size of firms contributed to job creation and employment shares from 1976 to 2019.

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Frontline Workers Report More Anxiety, Depressive Disorder Symptoms

Fewer adults are reporting symptoms of anxiety and depression than a year ago. Frontline workers outside the home are more likely to report these symptoms.

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Novice Data Users: Help Is on the Way

The U.S. Census Bureau’s Census Academy launches the 2022 Back to Data Basics Webinar Series this week to help less experienced data users navigate census data.

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Who Makes More Preventable Visits to the ER?

Census Bureau Study Shows a Link Between Lack of Various Resources and Higher Number of Preventable Visits for Emergency Care.

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Happy New Year 2022!

The United States is the third-most populous country in the world, behind China and India, but may drop to fourth behind Nigeria in the 2040s.

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Population Grew 0.1% in 2021, Slowest Rate Since America’s Founding

With the exception of the last few years, the U.S. population has not grown at such a slow rate since 1918, during the influenza pandemic and World War I.

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How Do We Support America’s Veterans?

Veterans are less likely to be in poverty than non-veterans, in part because of programs that support them and their families after service.

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Business Growth in Desert Southwest More than Twice National Average

More than 287,000 employer businesses called these counties home in 2019, up 8.5% Since 2015.