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Cities in Arizona, Texas and Florida lead population boom

The U.S. is spreading out, heading South and West and creating new boomtowns, tech hubs and rising power centers.

Axios

Gov. Pritzker, Illinois delegation scrambling to grab federal dollars ‘owed’ due to census goof

The Census Bureau bungle deprives Republicans of a main attack line: blaming Pritzker and Democrats for Illinois population loss — since, it turns out, the population grew.

Chicago Sun-Times

Too many eagerly accepted wildly erroneous census undercount in Illinois

The Census Bureau admitted last week that it had screwed up Illinois’ decennial headcount, and the state actually grew by about 250,000 people.

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How Trump’s census plot might have cost red states

A new report from the US Census Bureau found that 14 states were significantly miscounted in the 2020 Census, including six by 4 percentage points or more

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: Ideas for covering how well states were counted

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The Independent UK

Economic Data Scheduled For Friday

The Census Bureau quarterly services survey report for the first quarter is scheduled for release at 10:00 a.m. ET. The Baker Hughes North American rig count report for the latest quarter will be released at 1:00 p.m. ET.

Benzinga

Census misses may have cost Florida and Texas in redistricting

WASHINGTON — Census miscounts in Texas and Florida may have been big enough to cost those states a congressional seat this decade, and may have helped states such as Rhode Island keep a seat, according to data in a Census Bureau report released Thursday.

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In 2 states, 1 in 20 residents missed during US head count

Around 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census, and four other U.S. states had significant undercounts of their populations which could short-change them of federal funding in the current decade

The Independent UK

Census misses may have cost Florida and Texas in redistricting - Roll Call

Census miscounts in Texas and Florida may have been big enough to cost those states a congressional seat, according to census data.

Roll Call

Inside the data that debunks the ‘Great Replacement’ theory

Versions of the conspiracy theory have existed for decades or even centuries – but the data doesn’t support the claims, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Report: Census Bureau backlogged on background checks

The U.S. Census Bureau has a backlog of cases involving workers who were flagged for problems in their background checks

The Independent UK

Census ready to study combining race, ethnicity questions

U.S. Bureau officials say they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire

The Independent UK

Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s

The Independent UK

100s of US urban areas will become rural with new criteria

Hundreds of the urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, and it’s not because of anything they’ve done

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2022 best cities for freelancers

Using recent metro-area data from the U.S. Census Bureau and state-level data from the Federation of State Tax Administrators, NerdWallet’s list of the 10 best cities for freelancers includes places where housing and income taxes tended to be relatively more affordable, freelancer culture was vibrant and there were signs of…

Axios

Homebuyers face mortgage cliff

Homebuyers are facing a double whammy of higher prices and higher mortgage rates, which reduce the amount of money they can borrow to buy a house.

Tribune News Service

Census undercount risks funding for Native American reservations

WASHINGTON — Native Americans on reservations face another decade of underfunding from federal programs because thousands were not counted in the 2020 census — a problem shared by minority communities across the country.

Roll Call

Census undercount risks funding for Native American reservations - Roll Call

Native Americans on reservations face another decade of underfunding from federal programs because thousands weren't counted in the census.

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The Independent UK

Experts: Asian population overcount masks community nuances

Officials say they overcounted the Asian population by 2.6% in the 2020 U.S. census

Chicago Sun-Times

More Chicago residents in 2020 census identify as Native American

But Dorene Wiese, president of the American Indian Association of Illinois and a longtime Chicago resident, says it’s an undercount that could hurt Native American communities.

USAFacts

Where are immigrants moving in the US?

Between 2020 and 2021, the US population grew by 393,000 people. That’s one of the lowest single year population increases on record. By comparison, between 2014 and 2015, the US grew by 2.4 million residents, six times higher than last year’s increase.

Tribune News Service

Q&A: Census Bureau director on ‘transformational’ changes — and SXSW

Robert L. Santos did not get to shoot concerts at the South by Southwest festival this year because, as the new Census Bureau director, “I have a day job now.”

Tribune News Service

The census missed some folks. These cities want them counted

When the 2020 census found that tiny McNab, Arkansas, had lost more than half its residents, Mayor James Conway went door to door and found 45 people in the rural town instead of the 30 reported by the census.

Roll Call

Census Bureau director on 'transformational' changes — and SXSW - Roll Call

Robert L. Santos wants to eliminate silos the Census Bureau has built between data products it produces for other agencies.

The Independent UK

Detroit is largest city to challenge 2020 census numbers

Majority-Black Detroit has become the largest city to challenge its figures from the 2020 census following a national head count in which the U.S. Census Bureau acknowledges African Americans were undercounted

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