From the very first census in 1790, the United States has measured race – but rarely in the same way or without controversy. Categories such as “free white males,” “free white females,” “all other ...

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TIFFIN, Iowa (KCRG) - Friday marks the third day of the federal government shutdown, which has impacted the city of Tiffin’s plans to count how many people live in the city. Tiffin is conducting a ...

A Trump appointee has been picked to be the acting head of the U.S. Census Bureau, replacing a career economist in the interim job, at a time when the Republican president is calling for a new census ...

FILE - An envelope containing a 2020 census form mailed to a U.S. resident is seen in Detroit, on April 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File) (Paul Sancya, Copyright ...

President Trump recently announced that he had directed the Department of Commerce to conduct an unprecedented, mid-decade census of the U.S. population. Like his order for the 2020 Census that was ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during a news conference at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth on Aug. 20, 2025. Amy Beth Bennett South Florida Sun Sentinel Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis says Florida was ...

U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen and Baltimore Rep. Kweisi Mfume are challenging President Donald Trump’s bid to exclude immigrants in the United States illegally from being included in the census. “Our ...

President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to "immediately begin work on a new and highly accurate" census that would exclude undocumented immigrants. But the census ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday instructed the Commerce Department to have the Census Bureau start work on a new census that would exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally from the ...