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BARONE: Big surprises in the 2030 census estimates

February 6, 2026 Michael Barone

About a month late, presumably due to last fall’s government shutdown, the Census Bureau has released its estimates of the populations of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for July 1, 2025. It […]

Census shows 3.5 million Middle Eastern residents in US, Venezuelans fastest growing Hispanic group

September 30, 2023 Associated Press

The United States had 3.5 million residents who identify as Middle Eastern or North African, Venezuelans were the fastest-growing Hispanic group last decade and Chinese and Asian Indians were the two largest Asian groups, according […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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