Tag: Censuses

Watchdog: Little help from Trump officials in census probe

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A watchdog agency investigating the origins of a failed attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census form was unable to question...

Watchdog: Ross misled on reason for citizenship question

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President Donald Trump’s commerce secretary misled Congress about why he sought to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, according to an investigation...

Biden’s Census nominee promises independence, transparency

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President Joe Biden's nominee to lead the U.S. Census Bureau told a Senate committee on Thursday that he would bring transparency and independence to...

Census takers worry that apartment renters were undercounted

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Census taker Linda Rothfield's government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did...

Census Bureau dodges challenge to controversial privacy tool

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The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday dodged a challenge for now to its use of a controversial statistical method aimed at keeping people’s data...

Census on track for August data release after court ruling

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The U.S. Census Bureau said Wednesday that it's on schedule to deliver the numbers used for redrawing congressional and legislative districts by mid-August after...

15 GOP governors urge release of Census redistricting data

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Fifteen Republican governors sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging that the U.S. Census Bureau release redistricting data as soon...

Report says technology kept 2020 census below expected cost

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The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion, reflecting a slowdown in the price tag...

Latino group sues to block Democrat-drawn maps in Illinois

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CHICAGO — Illinois Democrats used inadequate data and an opaque process to draw new legislative districts, a Latino civil rights organization argued in the...

Harvard researchers recommend Census not use privacy tool

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A group of Harvard researchers has come out against the U.S. Census Bureau's use of a controversial method to protect privacy with the numbers...