Politics Jan 18 Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over citizenship data U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham says he plans to resign with the change in presidential administrations. Dillingham had been facing criticism over efforts to produce citizenship data to comply with an order from President Donald Trump.
Nation Jan 13 Census halts efforts to comply with Trump citizenship order The director of the U.S. Census Bureau is indefinitely halting efforts to compile data on who is in the country illegally after receiving blowback from civil rights groups and concerns raised by bureau statisticians about the accuracy of such figures.
Politics Jan 11 Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data The Trump administration has missed a deadline for giving Congress numbers used for dividing up congressional seats among the states, as the U.S. Census Bureau works toward fixing data irregularities.
Politics Nov 28 High court takes up census case, as other count issues loom President Donald Trump’s attempt to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to divvy up congressional seats is headed for a post-Thanksgiving Supreme Court showdown.
Politics Nov 19 Anomalies found in data puts census deadline in jeopardy The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time originally planned. The Census Bureau wouldn't say Thursday what the anomalies…
Politics Nov 13 Census case that led to head count halt heads back to court A coalition of local governments and advocacy groups wants the court to make the Census Bureau revert to a deadline of next April for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. The Trump administration wants this done by…
Nation Nov 12 Advisory group worried about rural census, crunched timeline The Census Scientific Advisory Committee said Thursday during a virtual meeting that, given they have low Internet access, residents of rural areas are particularly at risk of being undercounted since field operations ended two weeks earlier than planned.
Nation Nov 07 Census takers say they were told to enter false information Two census takers tell The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes they had not visited.
Politics Nov 06 3rd court blocks Trump’s order on congressional seat count A panel of three judges on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump's effort to exclude people in the country illegally from the numbers used for dividing up congressional seats is unlawful.
Nation Oct 23 U.S. census takers fall short of target goal The Census Bureau says it did reach 99.9 percent of the nation's households — but the missing 0.1 percent still represents hundreds of thousands of uncounted residents.