Save the American Community Survey - ACS
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May 19th, 2012Someone from San Mateo, CA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Burlington, NC signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Brighton, MA writes:
This is a direct assault on the main source of economic and social information. It is unbelievable that a majority in the House would vote for it. It was a vote for ignorance, pure and simple.May 19th, 2012Someone from Chula Vista, CA writes:
This will affect the possibility of conducting scientific research in the areas of social sciences,humanities and health.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Kansas City, MO signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Miami, FL signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Chestnut Hill, MA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Chestnut Hill, MA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Wichita Falls, TX writes:
The ACS provides demographic information that is vital for businesses, governments, and researchers around the country. It is short-sighted to sacrifice such an important source of knowledge about our country's population, for which there is no private-sector substitute.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Riverside, CA signed.
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May 19th, 2012Someone from Northampton, MA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Athens, GA writes:
The ASC provides the most important information to understand neighborhood contexts and their effects.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Crawfordsville, IN signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Oakland, CA signed.
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May 19th, 2012Someone from Silver Spring, MD writes:
The data collected by the ACS are critical to understanding the demographics of the nation. These data enhance the ability of government officials and private business to do their jobs and make our country a better place.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Ithaca, NY signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Greencastle, IN signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from New York, NY signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Portland, OR writes:
This survey is a critical tool for a variety of people in their attaining information across various fundamental sectors. Also, it serves as an instrument for cross-sector collaboration in order to understand "a whole picture" better. The funding for this survey is so key. Not only is the information invaluable, but, also its design allows it to be improved. Remove it and have nothing? Remove it and reinvent the wheel? Please continue the funding for this survey. This survey is invaluable to us as a nation.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Knoxville, TN writes:
Congress should be in favor of continuing to collect important information about the country.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Brooklyn, NY signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Florence, MA writes:
This survey--and the information it provides--is absolutely critical to the making of social policy, and to understanding current population trends. It is unconscionable to think of discontinuing it. Please reconsider!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Oakland, CA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Irvine, CA writes:
The ACS has been a huge boon to research in economics and other social sciences. The longer it stays around, the more it will help us understand American demographics and behavior because we can use it to see how people respond to real events. There is no other survey that covers such a broad population so consistently.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Statesboro, GA writes:
Why purposively limit rthe amount of information available to policy makers and citizens alike? This move makes no sense: the more informed we are, the more rational our acttions.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Berkeley, CA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from New York, NY signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Ithaca, NY writes:
Information is vital to good government practices. This move is extremely short-sughted, and shows an anti-science bias that is out of place in a modern nation.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Davis, CA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Redlands, CA writes:
We can't set good policy unless we know what is happening. I use this survey to train my students every semester. I want them to see what is happening to America -- objectively.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Bloomington, IN writes:
Please restore funding for the ACS! It is a vital source of data for social scientists and helps us understand our society so we can build a better tomorrow!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Waltham, MA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from New York, NY writes:
Reasoned debate about policy options requires honest facts about social and economic conditions. The ACS is critical to developing such facts!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Los Angeles, CA signed.
May 19th, 2012Someone from Oviedo, FL writes:
The 2008 financial crash occurred because one side controlled access to information. Opponent of government say it doesn't work, and then they make sure it cannot work by starving it of information. A tree falls in the forest and there's nobody around to hear it -- does it make a sound? Massive changes in demographics, housing, poverty, and education patterns occur, but nobody collects that information -- it might as well never have occurred! In a fact-free nation, ideology and partisanship and corruption and incompetence can all thrive, but democracy gets defined away completely!REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 19th, 2012Someone from Newtonville, MA writes:
ACS is a vital resource for many uses and it would be a tragedy to stop collecting this information.REPORT COMMENTS
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