When planners need demographic data, they often turn to the US Census. But Census 2000 data is now horribly outdated. Even when Census data is up-to-date, there are potential inaccuracies as highlighted by Justin Wolfers in his New York Times post “Can You Trust Census Data.” When having accurate demographic data is vital to the [...]
Archive | February, 2010
Current 2010 Poverty Guidelines
August 2nd Revision: The 2010 Poverty Guidelines will be published in the Federal Register on August 3, 2010. Finally! Click here to see the Poverty Guidelines for the Remainder of 2010. The 2010 Poverty Guidelines will not be revised until at least March 1, 2010 March 31, 2010 May 31, 2010 and are currently frozen at [...]
Reuters Article: Startup tackles environmental planning nightmares
Jon Cook of Reuters featured Cubit and Kristen in his article “Startup tackles environmental planning nightmares.” The article also includes an Entrepreneur Journal which describes a week in Kristen’s life and a video interview. The article does an amazing job to telling the story of how Cubit got started. It also hits the nail on [...]
When will Census 2010 data be available?
The Short Answer: April 2011 through September 2013 Summary files for the 2010 Census data will be released “on a flow basis from April 2011 through September 2013.” The Long Answer: Population counts will be delivered to President Obama within nine months of Census Day (on or before Dec. 31, 2010), as required by law. [...]
