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If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Santos, a Latinx statistician shown here in a 2019 photo, would be the Census Bureau's first permanent director of color.
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Biden To Make Historic Census Director Pick With Latinx Statistician Rob Santos

Apr 13, 2021
If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association, would be the bureau's first permanent director of color overseeing the national count and major surveys.
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COMIC: How Your State Wins Or Loses Political Power Through The Census

Apr 12, 2021
How much say your state has in Congress and the Electoral College is determined through a little-known, once-a-decade process based on the census.
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The Coronavirus Crisis
Dr. Hassan Bencheqroun, an interventional pulmonary and critical care physician, has seen firsthand the impact of COVID-19 on Arab communities in the San Diego area.
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Trying To Assess COVID's Impact On Arab-American Communities Is Complicated

Apr 11, 2021
It's hard to track the rate of COVID-19 infections among Arab Americans, who are often counted as white on survey forms without a separate checkbox for Middle Eastern or North African origins.
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President Biden Takes Office
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo has been confirmed as the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce, which oversees the Census Bureau.
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Biden's Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, Confirmed By Senate

Mar 02, 2021
Gov. Gina Raimondo, the first woman to lead Rhode Island, is cutting short a second term as governor to oversee an eclectic portfolio of U.S. Commerce Department agencies, including the Census Bureau.
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Weeks before the 1980 census officially began, the Federation for American Immigration Reform launched its campaign to exclude unauthorized immigrants from population counts that, according to the Constitution, must include the "whole number of persons i
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Immigration Hard-Liner Files Reveal 40-Year Bid Behind Trump's Census Obsession

Feb 15, 2021
The Trump administration tried and failed to accomplish a long-held desire of immigration hard-liners — a count of unauthorized immigrants to reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy.
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A census supporter holds up a sign during a 2020 rally in  New York City.
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6-Month Delay In Census Redistricting Data Could Throw Elections Into Chaos

Feb 12, 2021
To do more quality checks on the data needed for redrawing voting maps, the Census Bureau is now planning for a release by Sept. 30. The delay puts pressure on states facing tight election deadlines.
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A U.S. census worker sits in the plaza of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City in September. The Census Bureau announced Wednesday that the first results of the 2020 census are expected to be released by April 30.
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Census Numbers For Dividing Up House Seats Delayed Until April 30, Bureau Says

Jan 27, 2021
The 2020 census results used to determine representation in Congress and the Electoral College for the next decade will likely be released four months late, the U.S. Census Bureau announced Wednesday.
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Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo appears through video conferencing Tuesday during a Senate hearing for her nomination as the secretary for the Commerce Department, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau.
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'Take The Politics Out Of The Census,' Biden's Commerce Pick Raimondo Says

Jan 26, 2021
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, expected to oversee the U.S. Census Bureau as the next commerce secretary, says she will "rely on the experts" at the agency to ensure the 2020 census is accurate.
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Legal fights over the use of census data brought protesters to the Supreme Court in 2019.
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Biden Administration Tables Trump's Citizenship Data Request For Redistricting

Jan 22, 2021
Trump officials had directed the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data that a GOP strategist said would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" during redistricting.
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Inauguration Day: Live Updates
Protesters hold signs at a rally about the 2020 census in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. President-elect Joe Biden is set to reverse the Trump administration's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from population numbers used to realloca
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Biden To End Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted

Jan 20, 2021
President-elect Joe Biden is set to reverse Trump's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from a key count that the Constitution says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham, a Trump appointee who wore a "2020 Census" mask while swearing in to testify before a congressional hearing last year, is set to leave on Jan. 20, months before his term ends on Dec. 31.
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Trump's Census Director To Quit After Trying To Rush Out 'Indefensible' Report

Jan 18, 2021
After whistleblowers revealed Director Steven Dillingham was quietly pushing for a "statistically indefensible" report, calls have been growing for him to leave before his term expires at year's end.
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A demonstrator holds a sign about the U.S. census outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. The Census Bureau has stopped all work on President Trump's directive to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants that could be subtracted from a
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Census Bureau Stops Work On Trump's Request For Unauthorized Immigrant Count

Jan 13, 2021
The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants, ending the agency's role in Trump's bid to alter census numbers used for reallocating House seats, NPR has learned.
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U.S. Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham, a Trump appointee, wants employees at the bureau to make producing a data report about noncitizens "a number one priority" in the final days of the Trump administration, the Commerce Department Office of Ins
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Trump's Census Director Is Trying To Rush Out Data On Noncitizens, Watchdog Says

Jan 12, 2021
Whistleblowers told the Census Bureau's watchdog that Director Steven Dillingham's pushing them to make a report that would be "statistically indefensible" and could "tarnish" the bureau's reputation.
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A demonstrator hands out a sign about the 2020 census outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019. The Census Bureau is projecting the first set of census numbers won't be ready until February, Trump administration attorneys told a federa
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Trump's Census Plan In Peril As Bureau Expects February Release Of Count Results

Jan 04, 2021
The Census Bureau has fallen further behind schedule in running quality checks on the 2020 census after uncovering more irregularities in the records, jeopardizing Trump's bid to alter a key count.
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COMIC: How The Census Turns Into Political Power (And What Trump Wants To Change)

Dec 31, 2020
A little-known process determines your state's representation in Congress and the Electoral College. Trump wants to try to change it by excluding unauthorized immigrants for the first time in history.
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Protesters carrying signs about the census gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019. Immigrant rights advocates have vowed to continue fighting President Trump's proposal.
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Supreme Court Punts Census Case, Giving Trump An Iffy Chance To Alter Numbers

Dec 18, 2020
The opinion said the case was "riddled with contingencies and speculation" that impede judicial review. The president has sought to use a census count that does not include undocumented immigrants.
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Chris Worrell jokes with Teresa Jefferson while applying for a 2020 census job in Boston in February before the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on government records, the Census Bureau estimates the U.S. population has grown by as much as 8.7% since 2010.
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Census Estimates U.S. Population As High As 336 Million Ahead Of Actual Count

Dec 15, 2020
The Census Bureau has yet to release the 2020 census results, which are undergoing quality checks. Based on government records, it estimates the population has grown by as much as 8.7% since 2010.
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Signs promoting the 2020 census hang on a fence in Reading, Pa., in September. The Census Bureau has found irregularities in this year's census responses that could affect the counting of millions of people.
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Millions Of Census Records May Be Flawed, Jeopardizing Trump's Bid To Alter Count

Dec 05, 2020
The number of 2020 census records requiring quality checks because of irregularities has ballooned into the millions. That may stop Trump from getting control of a key count before leaving office.
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Leaked documents show there's a possibility that the Census Bureau will not be able to produce numbers for congressional apportionment in time for President Trump to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the count before leaving office.
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Leaked Files Show Trump's Ability To Alter Census May Come Down To The Wire

Dec 02, 2020
The Census Bureau may not be able to finish putting together a key census count before President Trump's term ends, internal documents obtained by the House Oversight Committee confirm.
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D.C. Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas joined another Trump-appointed federal judge in voting to dismiss a Washington, D.C.-based lawsuit over President Trump's efforts to omit unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers that set up the next Electoral Col
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Federal Court Rejects Challenge To Trump's Push To Alter A Key Census Count

Nov 25, 2020
In a 2-1 vote, the court tossed out a lawsuit, one of several working through the courts, that challenged a memo on excluding unauthorized immigrants from numbers that reset the Electoral College map.
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A Joe Biden supporter holds up a phone displaying the Electoral College map in Philadelphia on Nov. 7.
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Census 'Anomalies' Could Thwart Trump's Bid To Alter Next Electoral College

Nov 19, 2020
The Census Bureau has found routine irregularities in the 2020 census that require more quality checks and determined it cannot deliver a key set of numbers to President Trump before his term ends.
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President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are expected to revive policy proposals that could change how LGBTQ people and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa can identify themselves for the next U.S. census.
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Biden Wants Census To See 'Invisible' Groups: LGBTQ, Middle Eastern, North African

Nov 14, 2020
The Biden-Harris administration is poised to revive proposals that could change how LGBTQ people and people with roots in the Middle East or North Africa can identify themselves for the next census.
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The 2020 census has been disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic, historic hurricane and wildfire seasons, last-minute schedule changes, and President Trump's call to leave unauthorized immigrants out of a key census count.
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Can President-Elect Biden Redo The 2020 Census? It's Complicated

Nov 12, 2020
Concerns about the accuracy of the census after Trump officials cut the count short have led to calls for a do-over. But the proposal comes with major legal, financial and logistical complications.
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Some major final steps for the 2020 census are set to take place during the transition from President Trump to President-elect Joe Biden, who both appear above on a smartphone displaying the final presidential debate in October.
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The Census Is Not Over: What's Ahead During The Biden Transition

Nov 11, 2020
The legal fight continues over whether President Trump can alter numbers that set up the next Electoral College map, and there's a question of whether Congress will give more time for quality checks.
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President Trump and U.S. Attorney General William Barr leave after delivering remarks on the 2020 census in the White House Rose Garden in 2019 in Washington, D.C.
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2nd Court Blocks Trump's Push To Alter Census Ahead Of Supreme Court Review

Oct 22, 2020
A federal court in California says it is unconstitutional for President Trump to try to exclude unauthorized immigrants from the census numbers that determine each state's share of seats in Congress.

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