FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2003 Public Information Office CB03-146 (301) 763-3030/457-3670 (fax) (301) 457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov ***CENSUS BUREAU MEDIA ADVISORY*** Census Bureau News Conference on Income and Poverty What: The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference to release its annual reports on income and poverty in the United States. The reports, Income in the United States: 2002 and Poverty in the United States: 2002, are based on data collected in the 2003 Current Population Survey's annual social and economic supplement. Also being released is Supplemental Measures of Material Well-Being: Expenditures, Consumption and Poverty 1998 and 2001. When: Friday, Sept. 26, at 10 a.m. EDT Who: Daniel Weinberg, chief of the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division, U.S. Census Bureau, will discuss the findings. Where: U.S. Census Bureau Suitland Federal Center Morris Hansen Auditorium 4700 Silver Hill Rd. Suitland, Md. 20746 How: The Census Bureau will provide bus transportation for the media from the National Press Club at 14th and F streets in Washington to the Suitland Federal Center. The bus will depart from the National Press Club at 9 a.m. on the day of the news conference; it will leave the Census Bureau for the return trip, following the conclusion of the news conference, at about 11:30 a.m. Media who plan to attend the news conference should call (301) 763-3030 by 10 a.m. Sept. 25. Non-media who plan to attend, should call (301) 763-3183 by 10 a.m. Sept. 25. Photo identification is required for admission to the Census Bureau. (A visa or passport and additional information is required of noncitizens.) Those who do not attend may listen to a live audio transmission of the news conference via a phone listen line on (888) 455-3614; use passcode: CENSUS. Go to www.census.gov and look for the income and poverty reports icon in the top left corner. Clicking on the icon will take you to the news release, the reports and other materials. This information will be available on the Census Bureau's Web site beginning at 10 a.m. on the day of the news conference. -X- Editor's note: Selecting the "Income and Poverty News Conference" link to the right of "Newsroom" on the Census Bureau's homepage at www.census.gov, you will find a note to correspondents (discussing modifications to this year's income and poverty reports) and directions to the Census Bureau. Additional links will be activated on Friday, Sept. 26.