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 ...

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Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Census must count every person in the country every ten years. It's in the Constitution. But some advocacy groups, from conservatives to Latinos, have concerns about whom the government ...