Tag Archives: Census

President Donald Trump on Thursday directed the Department of Commerce to begin work on a new U.S. census that would exclude undocumented immigrants from the official population count — a move that could dramatically alter congressional representation and federal funding formulas. “I have instructed our Department of Commerce to immediately …

Ariana Figueroa, North Dakota Monitor House Republicans passed a bill last week to add a citizenship question to the census and exclude noncitizens from the official headcount when determining population for representation in Congress and electoral votes. The legislation, which passed on a 206-202 party-line vote, is part of a …

Casey Quinlan, Virginia Mercury Forty million people in the U.S. are having difficulty affording household expenses, and a little more than 25 million people say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Household Pulse survey data. The survey is …

Newly released demographic data from the United States Census Bureau reveals that the United States has become more diverse in the last ten years, while the non-Hispanic White population is declining. Since 2010, the population of Americans that identifies as White has decreased by 8.6%. Despite the decline, white people …