The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified ...

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The number of Black people living in the United States reached a new high of 48.3 million in 2023. That’s up a third (33%) since 2000, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data.

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter ...

Still, both race, which describes one’s physical characteristics, and ethnicity, which encompasses cultural traditions such as language and religion, play significant roles in people’s lives.

• Establish the Department of Government Efficiency under the Executive Office of the President until July 4, 2026. This is ...

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. People walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle’s Capitol Hill ...

Get on I-95 North — and keep going. For crime-weary New Yorkers, a better life could be just up the road. Six out of the ten safest states in the country are in New England, according to a new ...

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