The census is coming, the census is coming! Next year, the government conducts its decennial count of all U.S. residents. It's a daunting task fraught with political potholes, which Census director ...

Just one year from now, America will embark on our nation’s largest peacetime project … Census 2010. Since I became chairman of the House Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National ...

A group of black civil rights leaders, including the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, met with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke this past week to discuss ways to improve the government's count of ...

Conducting a national head count isn't easy or cheap. It gets even more complicated -- and expensive -- when efforts to modernize the decennial census fall short. The idea for 2010 was that half a ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

The 2020 census may have undercounted the nation's Black population by as much as 7%, or more than three times the rate of the 2010 Census, according to simulations conducted by an independent ...

The 2020 Census undercounted the Black, Latino and indigenous populations, even more so than in the last decade's Census. The undercount comes after delays of data collection caused by COVID-19 and an ...

Every 10 years, the U.S. government counts every person living in the country. The nation's founders mandated the decennial census in the Constitution. It's the largest peacetime government project in ...