From the Associated Press:
Commerce would get big boost for census
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly all of the huge increase in funding President Barack Obama wants for the Commerce Department goes to the massive job of conducting the 2010 census.
Obama is proposing a nearly 50 percent increase for Commerce under his proposal released Thursday.
The agency's discretionary budget would grow from $9.3 billion to $13.8 billion. Roughly $4 billion of the increase would go to the census, which the administration says will require hiring about half a million people. The census also got $1 billion in the recently enacted economic stimulus package.
Funding for the census is a contentious political issue because the count determines everything from government pay-outs to the number of congressional seats in each state.
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