The issue of tribalism or ethnic differences have largely ruined the success of the country. It has infected our politics to ...

Who is the census for? Or more importantly, who does Congress represent? If you answered "U.S. citizens," you're correct – or at least you should be. At the start of each decade, the federal ...

The Census Bureau plans to use U.S. postal workers as census takers in at least two locations during field tests next year for the 2030 census, which will determine political power and federal funding ...

“The [Census] Bureau continues to need independent expert advice, so that didn't change,” said Barbara Entwisle, the chair of the former governmental committee and now head of the independent panel, ...

President Biden Joe Biden speaks at a Hispanic Heritage Month 2022 reception at the White House. Just who counts as 'Hispanic' in the U.S. is an open question. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via ...

A Trump appointee has been picked to be the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau, replacing a career economist in the interim job, at a time when the Republican president is calling for a new census ...

The Trump administration has put in place a new acting director of the U.S. Census Bureau, NPR has learned. George Cook, an official at the Commerce Department, was named the bureau's leader as of ...

This month, the Census Department released its annual reports on income, poverty and health insurance in 2024. The main message was that things were more or less unchanged from the year before; the ...

A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee made up of scientific experts that was axed by the Trump administration earlier this year is resurrecting itself and meeting Thursday with no official blessing ...

It turns out, Houston is now the poorest of the 25 most populous cities in the U.S. According to recent U.S. Census data, about 21.2 percent of Houstonians now live below the poverty line. That’s more ...