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The 2020 census will impact the nation — from determining how much federal money will go to states, to dividing congressional seats, to helping city…

Shortly after returning home from school one day in spring 2010, luscely Flores, who was 13 at the time, and her mother heard a knock on the door. Peering…

The U.S. census counts incarcerated people as residents of where they are imprisoned. In many prison towns, that has led to voting districts made up primarily of prisoners who can't vote.

The 2020 census is critical for all states. One important reason? It determines how much money each state gets from the federal government for the next…

Trump's tweets came hours after the Court decided to keep a question about citizenship off the form to be used for the head count.

As Congress was holding a hearing on contempt for two Cabinet secretaries, the Justice Department said that it would not surrender materials sought by oversight committee Chairman Elijah Cummings.

Milwaukee officials are keeping a close eye on the census case being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday.Mayor Tom Barrett says if the Trump…

Who gets counted in the 2020 census? What kind of information do households have to give? NPR answers questions about the national head count required by the U.S. Constitution once a decade.

The high court agreed to a speedy review of a lower court's ruling that stopped Trump administration plans to use the census to ask whether every person living in the country is a U.S. citizen.

A federal judge in New York has issued the first ruling out of multiple lawsuits over a question about U.S. citizenship status. The ruling is expected to be appealed all the way to the Supreme Court.