The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone ...
USA Today

How big is the gender wage gap now? What new Census data shows.

New U.S. Census Bureau data shows the gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row, marking a blow to women's pay equity efforts nationwide. The news follows recent reports that women, ...
USA Today

Census releases data on cities with the highest population growth: See list

The United States Census Bureau has released a list of cities with the highest population growth. The agency tracked population growth from July 2023 to July 2024, and found that cities across the ...
Los Angeles Times

Trump seeks to change how census collects data and wants to exclude immigrants in U.S. illegally

WASHINGTON — President Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants who are in the United States illegally, he ...
NPR

Brain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country's statistics

As federal agencies brace for the Trump administration's next round of slashing the U.S. government, recent staff departures are already raising concerns about whether the Census Bureau can continue ...
Forbes

Trump Says Census Will No Longer Count Undocumented Immigrants

President Donald Trump on Thursday said he's ordered the Department of Commerce to change how it conducts the decennial census, pushing to no longer include undocumented immigrants in its count of U.S ...
PBS

Trump wants to change how the Census Bureau collects data

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has instructed the Commerce Department to change the way the U.S. Census Bureau collects data, seeking to exclude immigrants who are in the United States ...