The state's Department of Motor Vehicles signed an agreement to share records that the Census Bureau says will help it produce data about the citizenship status of every person living in the U.S.
Months after courts blocked the question from appearing on 2020 census forms, the Census Bureau released early findings from a national experiment testing public reaction to the controversial inquiry.
The federal government plans to hire eligible noncitizens as census translators and door knockers if it can't recruit U.S. citizens with needed language skills, continuing a practice from 2010.
The Census Bureau hopes to hire around a half million workers by next spring to complete the national head count. But it's running into trouble with low unemployment and background-check delays.
The Census Bureau is gathering records on people's U.S. citizenship status as part of Trump administration efforts to produce data that a GOP strategist said could politically benefit Republicans.
The lawsuit extends a legal fight over the Trump administration's efforts to produce data that a GOP strategist said could be used to politically benefit "Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
While the poverty rate finally fell to prerecession levels in 2018, the number of people without health insurance increased, and about one in eight Americans still lived below the poverty line.
A judge is allowing New York and others to intervene in Alabama's lawsuit challenging the long-standing inclusion of unauthorized immigrants in census numbers used to divide up seats in Congress.
Recent remarks raise concerns the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up seats in Congress based on population counts that include unauthorized immigrants.
Census Bureau workers are spreading out across the U.S. to make sure they have a list of every home address for next year's head count. Getting left out could lead to an inaccurate 2020 census.
After courts permanently blocked the question from the 2020 count, the Census Bureau revealed plans to change forms for American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Courts have permanently blocked the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census. But the Census Bureau is continuing to send surveys that ask about citizenship status.
John Gore, the main Justice Department official behind the Trump administration's failed push for a citizenship question, is set to leave the department, a person familiar with the matter tells NPR.
Immigrant advocacy groups are trying to encourage noncitizens to take part in the national head count while many remain skeptical after the Trump administration's failed citizenship question push.
Challengers of the Trump administration's push for a census citizenship question are asking a federal judge in New York to impose penalties for allegedly false or misleading statements by officials.
The Democratic senator and presidential hopeful is introducing a bill to prevent a transformation of the redistricting process that he says could give Republicans a political advantage.
The Trump administration appears to have delayed the printing of 1.5 billion paper forms and other mailings for next year's count as it decides whether to try again to add a citizenship question.
President Trump threatened to delay next year's constitutionally mandated head count hours after the Supreme Court ruled to keep a citizenship question off 2020 census forms for now.
A Census Bureau official privately discussed the citizenship question issue with Thomas Hofeller, who plaintiffs in census lawsuits argue drove the Trump administration's push for the question.
Close to a half million households in most of the U.S. are receiving letters for a last-minute experiment gauging how adding a citizenship question could affect how people respond to the 2020 census.
Public debate over a potential citizenship question and immigration enforcement, combined with the census going online, threatens an accurate head count, according to research by the Urban Institute.
