Hansi Lo Wang
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Politics
Biden To Make Historic Census Director Pick With Latinx Statistician Rob Santos
If confirmed by the Senate, Robert Santos, president of the American Statistical Association, would be the bureau's first permanent director of color overseeing the national count and major surveys.
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Politics
Biden's Commerce Secretary, Gina Raimondo, Confirmed By Senate
Gov. Gina Raimondo, the first woman to lead Rhode Island, is cutting short a second term as governor to oversee an eclectic portfolio of U.S. Commerce Department agencies, including the Census Bureau.
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National
Immigration Hard-Liner Files Reveal 40-Year Bid Behind Trump's Census Obsession
The Trump administration tried and failed to accomplish a long-held desire of immigration hard-liners — a count of unauthorized immigrants to reshape Congress, the Electoral College and public policy.
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Politics
'Take The Politics Out Of The Census,' Biden's Commerce Pick Raimondo Says
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo, expected to oversee the U.S. Census Bureau as the next commerce secretary, says she will "rely on the experts" at the agency to ensure the 2020 census is accurate.
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Politics
Biden Administration Tables Trump's Citizenship Data Request For Redistricting
Trump officials had directed the Census Bureau to use government records to produce data that a GOP strategist said would be "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" during redistricting.
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National
Biden To End Trump Census Policy, Ensuring All Persons Living In U.S. Are Counted
President-elect Joe Biden is set to reverse Trump's policy of excluding unauthorized immigrants from a key count that the Constitution says must include the "whole number of persons in each state."
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Politics
Census Bureau Stops Work On Trump's Request For Unauthorized Immigrant Count
The Census Bureau has stopped trying to produce a count of unauthorized immigrants, ending the agency's role in Trump's bid to alter census numbers used for reallocating House seats, NPR has learned.
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National
Trump's Census Director Is Trying To Rush Out Data On Noncitizens, Watchdog Says
Whistleblowers told the Census Bureau's watchdog that Director Steven Dillingham's pushing them to make a report that would be "statistically indefensible" and could "tarnish" the bureau's reputation.
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National
Trump's Census Plan In Peril As Bureau Expects February Release Of Count Results
The Census Bureau has fallen further behind schedule in running quality checks on the 2020 census after uncovering more irregularities in the records, jeopardizing Trump's bid to alter a key count.
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National
Census To Miss Year-End Deadline For Delivering Numbers For House Seats
Behind schedule and struggling to fix irregularities in the count, the Census Bureau is working toward Jan. 9 as the next date in the process for releasing results, a bureau employee tells NPR.