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Apr 13

Trump officials want delay in census due to virus, lawmaker says

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Field operations for the 2020 census have been suspended since mid-March and were set to resume this week.

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Apr 01

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News Wrap: U.S. believes China vastly understated its COVID-19 death toll

In our news wrap Wednesday, U.S. intelligence believes that China vastly understated its own death toll in the COVID-19 pandemic. Two senior U.S. officials say the true number of dead in Wuhan, where the outbreak began, could be 10 times…

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Apr 01

How the coronavirus pandemic has affected the 2020 census

By Saher Khan

The pandemic adds to the challenges the 2020 census was already facing…

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Mar 18

U.S. Census Bureau suspends field operations on virus concerns

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Field operations have been suspended for two weeks, citing the health and safety of its workers and the U.S. public from the novel coronavirus.

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Mar 10

Census Bureau site goes live as counting begins in earnest

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

There has been a U.S. census every decade since 1790. The results determine how many congressional seats each state gets and how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is distributed.

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Mar 09

Sesame Street wants to get young children counted in the census

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Researchers say no other age group was undercounted as much during the last once-a-decade census than children under 5. Sesame Street is using Count von Count to change that.

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Mar 05

Facebook drops Trump ads after Pelosi cites census confusion

By Mike Schneider, Amanda Seitz, Associated Press

The decision came Thursday, hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi criticized Facebook for the ads, saying people would confuse the survey with the once-a-decade head count.

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Feb 12

Census Bureau at risk of not being ready for count, government report says

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

While the Census Bureau has succeeded so far in early tasks of verifying addresses across the U.S. and launching an advertising campaign, the agency's readiness for upcoming operations is mixed, according to the report from the Government Accountability Office.

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Jan 17

What you need to know before the 2020 Census starts

By Mark Thiessen, Mike Schneider, Associated Press

The 2020 Census will begin next week in rural Alaska. The Census always starts in remote parts of the nation's largest state out of tradition and necessity.

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Jan 09

Children of color projected to be majority of U.S. youth this year

By Rogelio Sáenz, The Conversation, Dudley L. Poston, Jr.

The U.S. Census Bureau projects that, by the middle of 2020, nonwhites will account for the majority of the nation’s 74 million children.

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