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In 1st Full Year of Pandemic, Biggest Metros Lost Residents
In the first full year of the pandemic, the New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago metro areas had the greatest population losses in the nation
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Let the Challenges Begin! Time for Contesting Census Is Here
The U.S. Census Bureau has begun accepting challenges from states, cities and tribal nations that want to contest the results of the 2020 census
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Census Analysis Finds Undercount But Not as Bad as Predicted
The 2020 U.S. census missed an estimated 1.6 million people, but given hurdles posed by the pandemic and natural disasters, the undercount was smaller than expected
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Latino City in Arizona Grew, But Census Says It Shrank
The results of the 2020 headcount have many Latino and Black communities concerned about whether the latest numbers are accurate
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Census Bureau Hit by Cyberattack, But 2020 Count Unaffected, Watchdog Reports
U.S. Census Bureau computer servers were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack, but it didn’t involve the 2020 census.
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Connecticut Readies Redistricting Process
With new Census data to work with, Connecticut is looking at the redistricting process, which will now count inmates in their home districts, rather than where they are incarcerated.
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Falling Populations in Rural America Underscore Farm and Ranch Labor Shortages
“In the rural areas, if you didn’t have the Latino growth, employers would be struggling even more just to fill those positions,” a Nebraska research coordinator said of the state.
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Multiracial Boom Reflects US Racial, Ethnic Complexity
Growth in the number of people who identified as multiracial on 2020 census responses soared over the last decade, rising from under 3% to more than 10% of the U.S. population
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Census Data Kicks Off Effort to Reshape US House Districts
The U.S. Census Bureau has released new population data that will be used to reshape U.S. House seats and state legislative districts for the next decade
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New Census Data Expected to Reveal a More Diverse America
The Census Bureau is due to release new data on the changing U.S. population
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What Will New Census Data Show About Latino Growth?
The U.S. Census Bureau plans to release a trove of data from the 2020 census that should show Latinos have been key to the nation’s last decade of growth — launching a fight to ensure that growth is reflected in political representation.
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Texas Picks Up 2 House Seats in Newest Census; Democratic Strongholds Lose Out
The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released state population totals that determine the number of House seats each state gets out of 435. According to the data, southern states grew the fastest, with a 10.2% overall increase in population.
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Census Delay Helps GOP in One Statehouse, Dems in Another
The Census Bureau’s missed deadlines could spell bad news for Democrats in Virginia and Republicans in New Jersey in legislative elections this year
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US House Data Not Ready Until April, States' Data After July
The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April
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New Data Reveals Connecticut's Changing Demographics
New federal data gives insight into Connecticut’s demographics, information that could help create policy at the state level. Connecticut has become more racially diverse, but we’re still losing our young people to states out West. That is just some of the info from new, federal data just released. In the past few weeks the U.S. Census Bureau put the...
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New Data Reveals Connecticut's Changing Demographics
A new Census Bureau report shows that we have become more racially diverse as a state but we have also become slightly older.
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Census Bureau to Miss Deadline, Jeopardizing Trump Plan
The Census Bureau says it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.
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Virus, Other Problems Threaten to Throw Off Homeless Census
When census takers tried to count the nation’s homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort
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As Census Deadline Looms, Experts Worry About Rushed Final Report
The fate of this year’s census remains uncertain as the deadline to finalize the numbers approaches and experts express doubt about the government’s ability to produce an accurate count of the country under such tight constraints.
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High Court Rules Challenge to Trump Census Plan Is Premature
The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives