The census is mandated by the US Constitution. “The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term ...

A new study says inclusion of people in U.S. illegally has had little impact on presidential elections or control of Congress ...

Seventy-one years after the Eisenhower administration launched a high-visibility operation to arrest undocumented immigrants, ...

After Trump put out an executive order targeting gender identity, the public lost access to many Census Bureau data tables ...

In recent years, some public figures have argued that undocumented residents in the United States should not be included in ...

On Friday evening, the US Census Bureau’s website was completely inaccessible for a few hours as data were scrubbed from the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE = U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and ...

FILE = U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024 ...

U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos has announced he is resigning midway through his five-year term. Santos, the first person of color to lead the bureau, was appointed by former President ...

Robert Santos, who emphasized inclusivity and outreach to overlooked communities, has decided to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, midway through his five-year term and in the midst of ...

During his first term, President Donald Trump signed an order that would have excluded people in the U.S. illegally from being included in the 2020 census numbers used to allot congressional seats.

Trump issued the orders after the U.S. Supreme Court blocked his earlier attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census questionnaire Both Trump orders were rescinded when President Joe ...