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Census

March 2024

  • Hand holds a pen above a form with blue and green boxes

    US is changing federal race and ethnicity categories for first time in 27 years

    Americans of Middle Eastern descent used to have to identify as white on government forms – new categories will change that

February 2024

  • Fort Bend Democratic Chairwoman Goes Door-to-Door<br>Cynthia's shadow, complete with clipboard, stands next to the voter registration form she has left on someone's door handle. Canvasing census in Sugar Land, Texas with Cynthia Ginyard

    US Census Bureau to trial questions on gender identity and sexual orientation

    Test questions will be sent to 480,000 households for possible inclusion in the American Community Survey

August 2023

  • Pedestrians pass through Times Square in New York City in July.

    Gen Z will be last generation with white majority in US, study finds

    Change should come around 2045, study of updated US census data predicts, but author says ageing ‘is not race-neutral’

July 2022

  • Documents suggest that Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross worked to find a ‘a legitimate use of data’ to conceal the administration’s true intent.

    Trump aimed to erode immigrant representation with census citizenship question, documents show

    Documents reveal officials worked to keep secret their intention to use the data to exclude non-citizens from apportionment

March 2022

  • A sample US Census form is seen in New York<br>BGNMDE A sample US Census form is seen in New York. 12th January 2010

    Are white Christians under attack in America? No, but the myth is winning

    Alvin Chang
  • FILE - A form for the U.S. Census 2020 is photographed on March 18, 2020. The U.S. Census Bureau on Thursday, March 10, 2022, released two reports which measure how well the once-a-decade head count tallied every U.S. resident and whether certain populations were undercounted or overrepresented in the count. Any undercounts in various populations can shortchange the amount of funding and political representation they get over the next decade. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)

    US census produced huge undercount of Latino population in 2020

September 2021

  • FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: A family's stimulus check from the U.S. Treasury for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) aid arrived in the mail in Milton, Massachusetts, U.S., March 25, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo/File Photo

    US poverty fell in 2020 as government support offset pandemic damage

    Figures released by Census Bureau showing drop in poverty rate to 9.1% bolster arguments about effectiveness of state intervention

August 2021

  • Modern technology allows electoral mapmakers to not only draw thousands of maps, but also create maps look fair but are actually severe gerrymanders that rig elections for one party.

    The fight to vote
    ‘From dark art to dark science’: the evolution of digital gerrymandering

  • People on the Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles on 12 August.

    The fight to vote
    The census shows how the US is diversifying – will it lead to political power?

  • Lake Mead, the United States’ largest reservoir, is at the lowest levels ever recorded.

    Parts of the US are getting dangerously hot. Yet Americans are moving the wrong way

    David Sirota and Julia Rock
  • Census map

    The census proves the US is diversifying. Here’s how – in five charts

  • The fight to vote
    US’s white population declines for first time ever, 2020 census finds

  • The fight to vote
    Census Bureau data out today will shape the redistricting fight of this decade

April 2021

  • The Los Angeles skyline. California is among the seven states losing a seat in the House.

    The fight to vote
    The next major US voting rights fight is here – and Republicans are ahead

  • A woman talks with volunteers to fill out the form for the 2020 US Census in Sylmar, California, 17 August 2020. The state lost a congressional seat after the census.

    The fight to vote
    Texas, Colorado and Florida among states to gain House seats after Census

November 2020

  • FILES-US-POLITICS-COURT-CENSUS<br>(FILES) In this file photo demonstrators rally at the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on April 23, 2019, to protest a proposal to add a citizenship question in the 2020 Census. - US President Donald Trump's administration wages its last major policy fight before the Supreme Court on November 30, 2020 as it seeks to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population count used to determine states' representation in Congress. If the outgoing president's plan goes forward, states with large numbers of undocumented immigrants could see their influence reduced in the US House of Representatives. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

    Supreme court questions Trump bid to bar undocumented immigrants from census

    But justices seem hesitant to immediately stop policy, which could affect distribution of congressional seats

October 2020

  • A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. A half-million census takers head out en mass this week to knock on the doors of households that haven’t yet responded to the 2020 census. (AP Photo/John Raoux)

    The uplift
    I became a US census worker. Here’s what I learned

  • ‘The administration is rushing to end the census early in order to ensure that Trump, and not a successor with more respect for the constitution, is still in the White House to transmit the altered figures.’

    Trump is ending the census count early. It's a feat of profound political cynicism

    Andrew Gawthorpe
  • A census worker takes information from a man in New York. Experts said the court ruling could lead to an inaccurate count.

    Fight to vote
    Fight to Vote: did Trump just ruin the census?

  • US-HEALTH-VIRUS-POLITICS-CENSUS<br>A man wearing a facemask walks past a sign encouraging people to complete the 2020 US Census, in Los Angeles, California, August 10, 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic. - The result of the Census, which the Census Bureau announced it would end one month early, on September 30, directly affects the amount of funding a community receives for services including public schools, hospitals and fire departments. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

    Supreme court allows Trump administration to end census count early

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