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Until april 6th. so what i'm really going to be keeping an eye out for is reaction out of d.c. this week. >> there you go. great information. we appreciate both of you. thank you so much. in the meantime, on thursday, the president has a deadline to return the u.s. census forms. it's supposed to be a simple counting of all americans for every ten years, but this time questions about race causing some anger and some confusion. questions eight focuses on hispanics, but it prohibits anyone from claiming hispanic as a race. question nine goes even further. it uses the term "negro," which many afri...

State. >> overall the census bureau defends its outreach efforts which include $85 million in mailers to encourage people to return their census forms. >> it's very important we get an accurate count. as such, it's costly. but we could actually save about $1.5 billion in the taking of the census if every single person mailed back the form. >> census data helps determine everything from congressional representation to where more than $400 billion is directed each year in federal funding. but really the lingering question here and you hear it in the piece is just how much does that -- while it m...

Over budget. >> reporter: and then there's the super bowl ad. >> isn't that kind of what the census is doing? uh-huh. >> reporter: republican congressman jay, a leading critic of the census, calls that an expensive embarrassment. >> i just think that we need to go back and look at this and say, was this well-executed? was this well planned? and right now i see by the tens and millions of dollars going out the door it's not going to count that person that was hard to find and some part of whatever state. >> reporter: overall the census bureau encourages people to return their census forms. >> i...

The helicopter encouragement and uptick in violence in mexican border communities underscore the urgent need for more u.s. law enforcement and surveillance along the texas-mexico border. how does the united states of america take a picture of itself? that is sort of what is happening starting today and not an easy thing to do. we will take a look at the pro-serks the cost, and what it means as the first census forms show up at our mailboxes. plus jihad jane maybe had an atis. find out what the family of this woman arrested on terror charges is saying now about her new nickname. jihad jamie. th...

Births. demographers believe the large number of hispanics migrated to the country is one reason minorities will become the majority with 40 years. >> we'll find more about that. the census forms are getting mailed out. >> a reminder about that. >> did you? >> got that in the mail. >> why didn't they just send the census? why do they need a reminder? how much money is it costing to send them out? >> we talked about the post office. it's 16 minutes past the hour. had we come back, good news for people looking for a job. job openings are actually up. christine romans "minding your business" ne...