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Posted Sep 7, 2020, 5:11 pm
MacKenzie Belley
/Cronkite News
A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Census Bureau plan to end its counting a month earlier than planned, ruling in a suit joined last week by the Navajo Nation and Gila River Indian Community.... Read more»
Posted Jan 8, 2020, 11:25 am
Vandana Ravikumar
/Cronkite News
Even as it was losing the fight to put a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, the bureau was running tests last summer that it now claims show the question would not have affected response rates.... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2019, 2:34 pm
Jonathan Entin
/The Conversation
For the first time in decades, the 2020 census might include a question asking whether or not each counted person is a citizen.... Read more»
Posted Feb 15, 2019, 7:15 pm
Andrew Howard
/Cronkite News
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to fast-track a case challenging whether the Census Bureau can ask people their citizenship status, a move that advocates and local government officials fear will suppress immigrant participation.... Read more»
Posted Jan 29, 2019, 7:03 pm
Keerthi Vedantam
/Cronkite News
Mayors worry that asking about citizenship on the upcoming census will have a chilling affect on responses but anti-immigrant groups disagree. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 27, 2018, 5:08 pm
Justin Elliott
/ProPublica
Wilbur Ross wrote a memo arguing that the benefits of the controversial question would outweigh any harm... Read more»
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Posted Feb 26, 2018, 12:10 pm
Justin Elliott
/ProPublica
The Census Bureau is exploring options about adding a citizenship question to the next census, amid a firestorm of protest about the controversial proposal.... Read more»