Aug 13 Census data sets up redistricting fight over growing suburbs By David A. Lieb, Associated Press, Acacia Coronado, Associated Press/Report for America The once-a-decade battle over redistricting is set to be a showdown over the suburbs, as new census data showed rapid growth around some of the nation's largest cities and shrinking population in many rural counties. Continue reading
Aug 12 Watch 7:57 America is becoming more urban, more diverse and less white, 2020 Census reveals Despite a “hot mess” of a rollout and months of delays, new 2020 Census data reveals how America is changing. More respondents reported multiracial identities and for the first time on record, the white population declined. Lisa Desjardins explored the… Continue watching
Apr 26 Watch 8:26 How the 2020 census affects Washington’s balance of power By Lisa Desjardins, Kate Grumke The first batch of results from the 2020 census count are in. The bureau released state population numbers today and revealed how the balance of power in the U.S. House of Representatives has been reset for the next decade, and… Continue watching
Apr 26 Census: Texas gains Congress seats, California loses for the first time By Mike Schneider, Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press The nation's political center of gravity keeps shifting further to the Republican-led South and West. Continue reading
Mar 23 WATCH: Senate hearing on the 2020 Census By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The Census Bureau had a new automated system for the 2020 count. Called "the optimizer," it was designed to create efficient routes for census takers as they knocked on doors of households that hadn't yet responded to the survey. Continue reading
Feb 12 Census says no redistricting data until end of September By Mike Schneider, Associated Press Officials at the statistical agency blamed operational delays during the 2020 census caused by the pandemic. Continue reading
Jan 27 Census data for congressional seats still months away By Mike Schneider, Associated Press The deadline for turning in the apportionment numbers has been a moving target since the pandemic upended the Census Bureau's once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident. Continue reading
Jan 13 Census halts efforts to comply with Trump citizenship order By Mike Schneider, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Jan 11 Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census data By Mike Schneider, Associated Press 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. Continue reading
Dec 18 Watch 5:57 News Wrap: Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Trump’s plan for 2020 census In our news wrap Friday, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to President Trump’s plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from the 2020 census, the FDA moved to clear a second COVID-19 vaccine, the president takes heat for not addressing a… Continue watching