Watchdog raises concerns about Census Bureau's IT securityAmid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, census worker Ken Leonard wears a mask as he mans a U.S. Census walk-up counting site set up for Hunt County in Greenville, Texas...
Data snags cause Trump to miss giving Congress census dataPresident Donald Trump on Sunday let slip the target date for transmitting the apportionment numbers to Congress as the U.S. Census Bureau continued to work toward fixing...
Attorney: Congressional seat data not ready until FebruaryThe U.S. Census Bureau has found new irregularities in the head count data that determines congressional seat allocations and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal...
Census: Early analysis shows falsifying data was rareFILE - This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. The statistical agency said in a sta...
Census Bureau to miss deadline, jeopardizing Trump plan“The delay suggests that the census bureau needs more time to ensure the accuracy of census numbers for all states,” said Terri Ann Lowenthal, a former congressional staf...
With deadline looming, group wants more census documentsOn Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October. The Supreme Cour...
Virus, other problems threaten to throw off homeless censusWhen census takers tried to count the nation's homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort. When census takers tried i...
US population growth smallest in at least 120 years(AP Photo/Donald King, file)The U.S. population grew by the smallest rate in at least 120 years from 2019 to 2020, according to figures released Tuesday by the U.S. Censu...
High court rules challenge to Trump census plan is prematureThe Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump's plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used...
Census releases data to check official count for accuracyThey are not taken from official Census response data, nor are they part of the official count. Demographic Analysis data can tell the Census about errors for specific ag...
Census numbers-crunching documents at center of latest fightGovernment attorneys had asked Koh over the weekend to reconsider her order to release the documents or put it on hold. Last week, Koh ordered the government attorneys to...
House committee issues subpoena for Census documentsThe congressional committee that oversees the Census Bureau issued a subpoena Thursday to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, seeking documents related to data irregular...
Location, education propel Asian income growth in US“As the labor market tightened more in certain areas and in certain fields we would see more robust income growth for those groups," Ohio State economist Trevon Logan sai...
Census Bureau says data irregularities being fixed quicklyThe U.S. Census Bureau says the data irregularities that are putting in jeopardy a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats affec...
House committee chair presses Census on delays to countMaloney wrote that the Commerce Department — which oversees the Census Bureau — missed a Nov. 24 deadline to give the documents to the committee. Maloney threatened a sub...
Supreme Court seems skeptical of Trump's census planWASHINGTON – The Supreme Court sounded skeptical Monday that President Donald Trump could categorically exclude people living in the country illegally from the population...
High court takes up census case, as other count issues loomFILE - In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo an American flag waves in front of the Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Supreme Court is hearing argument...
Texts: US census manager told counters to use fake answersThe texts are the latest evidence suggesting census accuracy was sacrificed for speed as census takers and supervisors rushed to complete a head count last month. The exi...
Anomalies found in data put census deadline in jeopardyThe Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time original...
Census case that led to head count halt heads back to courtA month after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to end the 2020 head count of every U.S. resident, the case that propelled the ruling was back in a distr...
Census Bureau denies fake data allegations by census workers“The Census Bureau takes falsification allegations very seriously,” the bureau said. But census workers are rarely prosecuted for falsification of census responses since ...
Census takers say they were told to enter false information(AP Photo/Elise Amendola)Two census takers told The Associated Press that their supervisors pressured them to enter false information into a computer system about homes t...
Economy Adds 638,000 Jobs, Lowering Unemployment Rate to 6.9%; Half Covid Losses RecoveredThe U.S. unemployment rate fell a full percentage point in October, to 6.9 percent, as the economy continued its steady if fitful recovery from coronavirus-related job lo...flaglerlive.com
Job growth stronger than expected in October, unemployment rate slides to 6.9%Employment growth was better than expected in October and the unemployment rate fell sharply even as the U.S. faces the challenge of surging coronavirus cases and the imp...cnbc.com
Supreme Court will hear Trump appeal to exclude undocumented immigrants from census countThe Supreme Court said Friday that it will hear arguments on Nov. 30 on an appeal by the Trump administration that seeks to exclude the tally of undocumented immigrants i...cnbc.com
Jobs report shows fewer hires as recovery loses momentumNonfarm payrolls rose by a lower than expected 661,000 in September and the unemployment rate was 7.9%, the Labor Department said Friday in the final jobs report before t...cnbc.com
Rural areas, tribal lands hit hardest by census interruptionRio Arriba County, where a language other than English is spoken in over half of homes, is at the bottom at 9%. This pandemic makes it all the more challenging, said Javi...
Housing market falling short by nearly 4 million homes as demand growsThe U.S. housing market is short nearly 4 million homes, according to new analysis from realtor.com. Analyzing U.S. census data, the report showed that the 5.9 million si...cnbc.com