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.
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.
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.
Census Bureau to miss year-end deadline
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.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh suggested Tuesday that she would be open to issuing a contempt finding against the federal government or making a ruling that her order had been violated. A Trump administration attorney says the suggestion that the…
A federal judge ruled last week that the head count of every U.S. resident should continue through the end of October.
Field operations for the 2020 census have been suspended since mid-March and were set to resume this week.
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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