WASHINGTON — Families USA, a national organization pushing for health-care reform, released a report this morning estimating the loss of health insurance due to rising unemployment.

Extrapolating from recent Census data, the group released reports for Missouri and Nebraska,  concluding that the number of uninsured…

Groves

U.S. Rep. Lacy Clay — the House’s chief liaison for the decennial census — is lauding President Barack Obama’s choice to lead the national survey.

Last week, Obama tapped Robert M. Groves, a demographer at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research,…

Sen. Judd Gregg

WASHINGTON — The decision by GOP Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire to withdraw from his appointment as the Obama administration’s Commerce Secretary will be cast as part of the partisan blow-up in Washington over the economic recovery package.

But indications…

A report released this week confirms what has become conventional political wisdom in Missouri: That, after 2010, the state will lose a seat in the U.S. House.

An analysis of population trends by the firm Election Data Services relays that Missouri and…

Grijalva

As president-elect Barack Obama begins to fill out the lower-profile seats in his cabinet, one choice could draw particularly high interest in St. Louis.

Obama has yet to chose his Interior Secretary, whose purview spans the country’s national parks and memorials…

Gov. Matt Blunt today named a group of citizens to a committee that he established to raise awareness about the upcoming Census count in 2010. The count is significant for Missouri because early predictions show the state might lose a…

The state Office of Administration just released a new set of population projections for the state of Missouri through 2030.

The projections deal with all 114 counties and the city of St. Louis.

(Click here for the full report.)

The key findings:
–”Missouri’s population is…