Judge says citizenship question on census ‘threatens’ democracy
The Trump administration's decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census "threatens the very foundation of our democratic system" because it would cause a significant undercount of immigrants and Latinos that could distort the distribution of congressional seats,…
Trump administration barred from adding citizenship question to 2020 census, for now
In a 277-page decision that won't be the final word on the issue, U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman ruled that while such a question would be constitutional, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had moved to add it to the census arbitrarily…
Trump’s remarks about changing European culture draw ire
Trump, the grandson of a German immigrant and the son of a Scottish immigrant to the United States, described immigration as negative for Europe.
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What government documents reveal about the 2020 census
Amid criticism, the Trump administration is facing lawsuits for adding a question about citizenship to the upcoming 2020 census. And the U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees the census, recently released more than a thousand pages of documents about its decision…
John Gore, acting assistant attorney general, was scheduled to testify Tuesday as the committee reviewed the Census Bureau's readiness for the 2020 Census. He did not attend the hearing.
WASHINGTON — The 2020 U.S. Census will include a question about citizenship status, a move that brought swift condemnation from Democrats, who said it would intimidate immigrants and discourage them from participating.
Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years is used to draw voting districts and determine how much funding to give to states, counties and cities, but underfunded and without a director, the agency is now on the…
The director of the people-counting Census Bureau is leaving his job just as the agency steps up its once-a-decade tally, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
It’s a major issue on the campaign trail: American angst about jobs and wages. New census data from last year shows that for the first time in almost a decade, household incomes in the U.S. have gone up and the…
