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Census will count same-sex couples

By Jason Hancock 6/22/09

Reversing course from a policy put in place under the Bush administration, same-sex couples will be counted as married in the upcoming 2010 census.
It was announced last summer that because the federal government could not legally recongnize same-sex marriages, same-sex couples would go uncounted. But last week, the new administration of President Barack Obama announced [...]

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