The census is coming, the census is coming! Next year, the government conducts its decennial count of all U.S. residents. It's a daunting task fraught with political potholes, which Census director ...

A group of black civil rights leaders, including the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, met with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke this past week to discuss ways to improve the government's count of ...

Conducting a national head count isn't easy or cheap. It gets even more complicated -- and expensive -- when efforts to modernize the decennial census fall short. The idea for 2010 was that half a ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

Getting an accurate count of America’s population has proven difficult in the 2020 Census as the coronavirus pandemic has hampered voluntary responses and forced officials to scale back door-knocking ...

Every 10 years, the U.S. government counts every person living in the country. The nation's founders mandated the decennial census in the Constitution. It's the largest peacetime government project in ...

Friday marks the third day of the federal government shutdown, which has impacted the city of Tiffin’s plans to count how ...

More than 1 billion Chinese citizens will participate in a once-in-a-decade census that will inform policymakers on demographic shifts in the world's most-populous but fast-ageing nation, and help ...