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August 18, 2022

2020 census

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Census: 1 in 5 dorms, prisons had no data at end of US count

August 2, 2021 Mike Schneider, Associated Press

By the end of the U.S. head count last year, the Census Bureau had no data for almost a fifth of the nation’s occupied college dorms, nursing homes and prisons, requiring the statistical agency to […]

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Census takers worry that apartment renters were undercounted

July 9, 2021 Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Census taker Linda Rothfield’s government-issued iPhone kept directing her back to apartments in San Francisco that she already knew were vacant. When she did find apartments that were occupied, she was sometimes turned away because […]

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15 GOP governors urge release of Census redistricting data

June 24, 2021 Adrian Sainz, Associated Press

Fifteen Republican governors sent a letter Tuesday to the U.S. Department of Commerce urging that the U.S. Census Bureau release redistricting data as soon as possible, saying further delays would hurt efforts to redraw congressional […]

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Legislature nears delaying elections in some cities to 2022

June 10, 2021 Associated Press

RALEIGH — About three dozen municipalities — Charlotte and Greensboro among them — would see scheduled fall elections moved to early next year in legislation approved unanimously by the House on Wednesday that anticipates delayed […]

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Study: Residents left big metros during pandemic for family

May 10, 2021 Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Cece Linder was living in a 770-square-foot apartment outside Washington, D.C., last spring when the area went into lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic. In May 2020, after a few months of both living and […]

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US birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century

May 7, 2021 Mike Stobbe, Associated Press

NEW YORK — The U.S. birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday. The rate dropped for moms of every major […]

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Judges hear arguments over Census’ contentious privacy tool

May 3, 2021 Kim Chandler and Mike Schneider, Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The fight over whether the U.S. Census Bureau can use a controversial statistical technique to keep people’s information private in the numbers used for drawing political districts on Monday went before a […]

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Population growth gives North Carolina a 14th US House seat

April 28, 2021 Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press

RALEIGH — North Carolina will gain another seat in Congress for the next 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau announced, the result of a steadily growing population as people arrive for jobs and retirement. The […]

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Young adults’ relocations are reshaping political geography

April 26, 2021 Nicholas Riccardi and Mike Schneider, Associated Press

Garima Vyas always wanted to live in a big city. She thought about New York, long the destination for 20-something strivers, but was wary of the cost and complicated subway lines. So Vyas picked another […]

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16 states back Alabama’s challenge to Census privacy tool

April 15, 2021 Mike Schneider, Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Sixteen other states are backing Alabama’s challenge to a statistical method the U.S. Census Bureau is using for the first time to protect the privacy of people who participated in the 2020 […]

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