The Trump administration's proposal that questions about citizenship be added to the 2020 census has caused a political firestorm. Democrats claim this would discourage people from filling out their ...

At the beginning of April, all Americans will be asked to participate in a special event that takes places once every 10 years: the census. The nation will be examining and tabulating the sizes and ...

After months of headlines, presidential tweets and a Supreme Court decision, the 2020 Census will not ask people about their citizenship status. President Donald Trump and his advisers tried to add ...

Once a decade, an effort is made to count every resident in the United States. The nation's first census was taken in 1790, as mandated by the Constitution. "This isn't our first rodeo as it relates ...

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The aim of House Democrats’ census ‘oversight’ is to influence the justices. Image: Getty The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down its decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case regarding ...

Every 10 years, the census counts every American wherever they live on one particular day: “Census Day.” Since 1930, that day has been April 1. This year, the millions charged with making door-to-door ...

It's a rule that many genealogists plan their lives around. Once a decade, the U.S. Census Bureau tries to gather the names, home addresses and other details of every person living in the country for ...

As part of my series of critical years in the history of St. Louis, I thought I would next focus on the year 1930. The federal census in this year revealed a new development between the city and the ...

U.S. Census Bureau data newly released Thursday paints America as a more diverse and urban country today than it was 10 years ago. About 86% of the country’s population lives in metro areas, the ...

As Congress grapples with national changes to police policy and other systemic problems tied to race, another government process is struggling to include minority communities: the 2020 census. Prior ...

A new phase of census data releases started last month as the U.S. Census Bureau completed its process of counting the population of the country. The bureau released state-by-state population data in ...