Biden picks first person of color to head Census Bureau fulltime
If confirmed, Robert Santos would become the first person of color to serve as a permanent director of the Census Bureau, the nation's largest statistical agency.
Asian Americans are the fastest growing group in the U.S., report finds
Fast-growing Asian American population set to change business and politics in the U.S.
WATCH: Senate hearing on the 2020 Census
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.
Census data for congressional seats still months away
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Census Bureau will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, a delay that could undermine President Donald Trump’s efforts to exclude people in the country illegally from the count if the figures…
The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference Dec. 15 to announce the release of the 2020 Demographic Analysis population estimates.
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