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 18 Census Bureau director to resign amid criticism over citizenship data By Mike Schneider, Associated Press 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. 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 31 Census Bureau to miss year-end deadline By Associated Press 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… Continue reading
Dec 15 Census releases data to check official count for accuracy By Adrian Sainz, Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau will hold a news conference Dec. 15 to announce the release of the 2020 Demographic Analysis population estimates. Continue reading
Sep 29 Judge says ending 2020 census on October 5 violates her order By Mike Schneider, Associated Press 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… Continue reading
Sep 28 Commerce secretary: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order By Mike Schneider, Associated Press A federal judge ruled last week that the head count of every U.S. resident should continue through the end of October. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
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. Continue reading