U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

The Senate has confirmed Robert Santos as the next U.S. Census Bureau director

Climate change, labor costs, transportation issues, Covid catalysts and other supply chain disruptions are wreaking havoc on the industry.

Redistricting is taking place without previous federal protections, and voters of color could lose out even as Census data shows the U.S. is now more diverse.

Some census takers worry that apartment renters were not fully tallied during last year’s national headcount.

The 2020 census is expected to cost $14.2 billion, well below a previous estimate of $15.6 billion.

The U.S. Census says more than two-thirds of U.S. citizens of the voting age population cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election

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.

Biden to nominate Robert Santos for Director of the Census Bureau. He would become the first person-of-color if confirmed.

As the once-a-decade redistricting conflicts heat up across the country, both Republicans and Democrats are wrestling with how far to press their advantage in a process as consequential as any election.

U.S. Census Bureau director Steven Dillingham is planning to resign with the change in presidential administrations.

U.S. Census Bureau statisticians are under significant pressure from Trump political appointees to figure out who in the U.S. is in the country illegally

The Trump administration has missed a deadline for giving Congress numbers used for dividing up congressional seats among the states, as the U.S. Census Bureau works toward fixing data irregularities found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census

A Trump administration attorney says the numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets won’t be ready until February.

The Census Bureau says it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.

When census takers tried to count the nation’s homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats

The Associated Press has obtained text messages that a U.S. Census Bureau supervisor in Alabama sent to workers telling them how to fake counts of households by entering misleading data

The Supreme Court’s decision to allow the Trump administration to end the 2020 census this week put the brakes on a whiplashed census that had faced starts and stops from the pandemic, natural disasters and court rulings.

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Census Bureau for the time being to stop following a plan that would have had it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September

The postal service isn’t the only staid federal agency to be drawn into a political battle this year.