Save the American Community Survey - ACS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Oviedo, FL signed.
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Oberlin, OH writes:
The ACS helps perform high quality research that will improve the efficiency of public programs. Eliminating it is a short sided policy that will cost the American taxpayers in the long run.May 18th, 2012Someone from Roswell, GA signed.
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Amherst, NH writes:
The ACS produces valuable information for business and researchers. Please do not go along with this very shortsighted decision by the House.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Sunderland, MA writes:
Please don't allow this valuable piece of research to be cut.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Fanwood, NJ writes:
Longitudinal data bases such as the American Community Survey are important sources of knowledge for members of Congress and for the public at large. They play an important role as well in the development of scholarly knowledge about the state of our society. I urge the continuation of this important source of data.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Clemson, SC writes:
The American Community Survey (ACS) replaced the role of the Decenniel Census in gathering crucial information on large numbers of individuals across US states and metropolitan areas. I have used, and continue to use, the ACS in my research, the results of which I hope will be valuable to policy makers and other stakeholders. Loss of the American Community Survey would be devastating, making it impossible to answer even the most basic questions -- for example, the pattern of geographic migration -- with any precision.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Bowling Green, OH writes:
The ACS is an invaluable resource for improving our understanding of the needs of citizens and problems facing American society. To discontinue funding for this survey will end up costing us more money than it saves in the long run. How else do we make decisions, if not with data? -a concerned scientistREPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Germantown, MD writes:
If you closed one corporate tax loop hole you could fund all of the programs you wish to cut.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Charlottesville, VA writes:
As one of my colleagues said: "eliminating the American Community Survey is like telling the doctor that you don't want him or her to know your temperature, pulse, or blood pressure." I may add: it is like having a pain but refusing an x-ray to get diagnosed.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Canton, OH writes:
As a professional geographer and scholar, the ACS is crucial to identifying those American citizens and communities that struggle on a daily basis to cloth, feed, and shelter themselves. The private sector has failed these individuals and neighborhoods and it is our responsibility as a nation (if we are one) to assist them and strengthen our country at large. Ignoring these conditions of poverty and inaccessibility to quality health care, education, and employment does not eliminate the problem. It only deepens the problem and, in the minds of those who have eliminated the ACS, legitimizes the political power of the private sector in America.REPORT COMMENTS
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No, CancelMay 18th, 2012Someone from Canton, OH writes:
As a professional geographer and scholar, the ACS is crucial to identifying those American citizens and communities that struggle on a daily basis to cloth, feed, and shelter themselves. The private sector has failed these individuals and neighborhoods and it is our responsibility as a nation (if we are one) to assist them and strengthen our country at large. Ignoring these conditions of poverty and inaccessibility to quality health care, education, and employment does not eliminate the problem. It only deepens the problem and, in the minds of those who have eliminated the ACS, legitimizes the political power of the private sector in America.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Norman, OK writes:
The ACS is an important resource for social and demographic research in addition to it being critical for policy purposes. Without the ACS and without the census long form anymore, it will be impossible to continue to study important issues. For instance, in my own field, such data have been used in the past to ascertain whether members of minority groups become assimilated into residential neighborhoods with whites as they increase their socioeconomic status. Research on this topic has been of interest to social scientists and policy makers since the 1960s. Without the ACS it will be impossible to study this in the future.REPORT COMMENTS
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May 18th, 2012Someone from Aurora, CO writes:
It is important to have the ACS information to determine trends and for policy changes and creation.REPORT COMMENTS
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