Census wants to know how to ask about sexuality and gender Sexual orientation and gender identity The Independent UK · Jun 11, 2022
Editorial: What the census undercount did to Florida’s clout and cash A lot of Floridians went missing in the 2020 census, which is costing the Sunshine State at least one seat in Congress and untold billions of federal dollars. About 750,600 Floridians were not counted in 2020, according to a new Census Bureau analysis. That’s a lot of missing people —… Tribune News Service · Jun 3, 2022
Austin is largest US city to challenge 2020 census numbers One of the most booming cities in the U.S. over the past decade thinks that it grew even bigger than the U.S. Census Bureau says it did The Independent UK · Jun 1, 2022
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 · May 30, 2022
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 · May 21, 2022
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. Chicago Sun-Times · May 20, 2022
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 · May 20, 2022
LOCALIZE IT: Ideas for covering how well states were counted EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: The Independent UK · May 20, 2022
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 · May 20, 2022
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. Tribune News Service · May 19, 2022
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 · May 19, 2022
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 · May 19, 2022
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 · May 16, 2022
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 · May 11, 2022
The Independent UK · May 6, 2022 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 · May 6, 2022 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 · May 1, 2022 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
The Independent UK · Apr 29, 2022 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 · Apr 28, 2022 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 · Apr 14, 2022 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 · Apr 14, 2022 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.
The Independent UK · Apr 10, 2022 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 · Apr 8, 2022 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 · Apr 7, 2022 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 · Apr 6, 2022 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.”