Release of Poverty Statistics Draws Fire
- By Ethan Wallison
- Roll Call Staff
- Aug. 9, 2004, Midnight
Few Washington insiders noticed, but a switch of some import was made quietly last year. The Census Bureau chose to release its annual U.S. poverty figures not on the traditional Tuesday downtown at the National Press Club, but rather on a Friday afternoon at Census headquarters in Suitland, Md. — a place far from most newsrooms, and at a time when most sensible people are focused on matters other than demography.
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