Several southern and western states will be seeing an increase in their political clout in the House of Representatives, according to the first results from the Census Bureau's decennial survey. The bureau released its apportionment counts Monday, as well as the total population for each state, a...
"The 2016 election was kind of a wake-up call. Our partners at Homeland Security are saying in 2020 they're concerned about the census and the election," said Ron Jarmin, deputy director of the Census Bureau. The results of the once-in-a-decade count determine political representatio...
The Census Bureau set off reports of a “multiracial boom” when it announced that, according to the 2020 census, multiracial people accounted for 10.2 percent of the U.S. population. Only the year before, the bureau’s American Community Survey had estimated their share as 3.4 percent. We ...
The Washington Bladereports, “Trump’s U.S. Census proposes, immediately cuts LGBT survey questions.” The Blade notes the U.S. Census Bureau issued a statement “indicating the report was corrected because the initial appendix ‘inadver...
exclude people in the country illegally from the numbers used in redrawing congressional districts. The revised plan would have the Census Bureau handing in the apportionment numbers at the end of December, under the control of the Trump administration, no matter who wins the election in November....
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The postal service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle in 2020. Unlike the department charged with delivering mail, however, the U.S. Census Bureau has been here before. It has found itself targeted by politicians repeatedly s...
Another: These are just preliminary estimates. The full picture will only be clear with the results of the 2020 Census, which has been complicated by COVID-19. While the Census Bureau halted field operations on Oct. 15 after getting the OK from the Supreme Court, many state and ...
The U.S. Census Bureau reports a record high of nearly 60% of Asian Americans voted in 2020. Building Back Together wants to add to those numbers. The nonprofit spearheads a new voting rights effort to ensure that Asian residents with limited English language skills are granted resources as ...
At Tuesday’s hearing, several Democratic House members wanted to know why the Census Bureau hadn’t done more to denounce Republican National Committee mailings and a Trump re-election campaign ad on Facebook that the lawmakers said resembled a census form. Facebook last week took down the ad...
The agency said it aimed to have the same level of responses for its 2020 count as past censuses. The Census Bureau planned to hold extra training sessions for workers and said it will reward door-knockers who work the maximum hours possible. “We will improve the speed of o...