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Why people are moving
The U.S. Census Bureau released its survey detailing how many Americans moved from one residence to another, and for what reasons. The results showed that compared to the past, fewer Americans have...
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The wage gap decreases slightly among married couples
A new analysis of data from the U.S. census shows a slight uptick in women who earn more than their male spouses. In the last fifteen years, the percentage of women who earn $30,000 or more than their...
View ArticleCensus director resigns as ramp up for 2020 count begins
The resignation of the U.S. Census Bureau director leaves the agency with no leader just month before it begins a big hiring and technology push for the 2020 census. Data from the census is useful far...
View ArticleLGBTQ advocates ask why questions left off Census survey
What’s your sexual orientation and gender identity? The Census Bureau was considering asking that on upcoming surveys, but not any more. Advocates for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and...
View ArticleAmerican household income finally topped 1999 peak last year
WASHINGTON (AP) — The median U.S. household’s income finally topped pre-recession levels in 2016 after two strong years of increases. Incomes for a typical U.S. household, adjusted for inflation, rose...
View ArticleCensus reports drop in poverty, but for a lot of Americans, things don’t feel...
We’ve got new numbers today from the U.S. Census Bureau on poverty in America. The official poverty rate went down by 0.8 percent. That means last year, about 40.6 million Americans were living in...
View ArticleU.S. Census Bureau will be looking to hire field workers in a competitive...
The U.S. Census Bureau says it needs to hire hundreds of thousands of workers to complete the 2020 census. But since the economy is in such good shape, with unemployment down to 3.7 percent in...
View ArticleA patchy picture of the U.S. economy thanks to the government shutdown
The Census Bureau was supposed to release figures on last November’s factory orders today. But thanks to the partial shutdown of the federal government, the Census Bureau is closed. Marketplace’s...
View ArticleTexas leads way in population growth
The share of U.S. population growth that’s driven by immigration has steadily risen over the past 10 years, partly because the birth rate is falling and the population is aging. One of the places you...
View ArticleFor many businesses, good census data is the benchmark
On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether a question about citizenship should be included on the 2020 census. The Commerce Department’s move to add the citizenship question to...
View ArticleCongressional Black Caucus seeks to boost participation in U.S. census
Today in Washington, U.S Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham is scheduled to appear before the House Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee. The topic is fallout from the recent push by...
View ArticleU.S. census prepares for a digital count
The U.S. Census Bureau is rolling out its field operations plan for the 2020 census and hiring people as census takers. This census will be the first to seek information online on a wide scale. We...
View ArticleU.S. Census Bureau gears up to recruit workers
The U.S. Census Bureau is kicking off a nationwide drive on Tuesday with the goal of hiring half a million workers for part-time, flexible jobs that pay between $12.50 and $30 an hour. But in the...
View ArticleLow unemployment puts strain on census hiring
Colorado’s unemployment rate is at its lowest level in 44 years, making it difficult to find workers for the upcoming 2020 census. In response, the Census Bureau raised its entry-level pay in Colorado...
View ArticleUsing familiar faces could eventually open Detroit’s doors for census takers
The U.S. Census Bureau is suspending its field operations until April because of the coronavirus pandemic. With billions of dollars’ worth of federal funding at stake, however, the count will go on....
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Tracing the history of the census, at a time when 2020 operations are suspended
The 2020 census, like those that came before it, was to be the nation’s largest peacetime mobilization, deploying up to 500,000 census takers to follow up with households that do not respond either...
View ArticleIs it too late to fill out your 2020 census?
The census is about political representation, and it’s in large part about who gets government money in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau has an update on the census taking place during this...
View ArticleCensus finds nearly 30 million people didn’t have health insurance in 2019
The U.S. Census Bureau this week released new data from 2019, including a snapshot of health insurance coverage. According to the agency, 9.2% of people didn’t have health insurance when the census...
View ArticleEvery number is the story of what’s counted, and what’s not
From GDP to U.S. cases of COVID-19, numbers are essential to understanding what’s going on in the world. But how well do we understand where numbers come from? That’s one of the central questions in...
View ArticleLatest census data finds population growth in metro areas
The vast majority of Americans live in cities and their broader metro areas, according to new data released this week from the U.S. Census Bureau. The population of U.S. metro areas grew by 9% over...
View ArticleGovernment support credited with decline in poverty in 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau released some much-anticipated numbers on Tuesday morning: poverty rates in the year of economic chaos that was 2020. There’s the official poverty rate, which went up slightly...
View ArticleCensus Bureau to add business startups as an official statistic
The pandemic has led to record numbers of business startups, as Americans have felt a sense of urgency to create businesses after being laid off or after deciding to quit their jobs. This trend has...
View ArticleCensus undercount of Black, brown communities could ripple through economy
The decennial U.S. Census may feel very 2020 at this point — something that happened in a year we’d all like to forget. But last month the Census Bureau released its best guess as to how accurate the...
View ArticleCensus: Income fell, poverty increased in 2022
No matter how you slice new data released by the U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, real median income — the amount a household earns adjusted for inflation — fell last year. By one measure, it was down...
View Article2030 census will include “Middle Eastern or North African” box for the first...
On the 2030 U.S. Census, Arab Americans will have their own box to check for the first time ever. And starting on Friday, agencies across the federal government are being instructed to add a “Middle...
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