At the beginning of April, all Americans will be asked to participate in a special event that takes places once every 10 years: the census. The nation will be examining and tabulating the sizes and ...

The Trump administration's proposal that questions about citizenship be added to the 2020 census has caused a political firestorm. Democrats claim this would discourage people from filling out their ...

After months of headlines, presidential tweets and a Supreme Court decision, the 2020 Census will not ask people about their citizenship status. President Donald Trump and his advisers tried to add ...

Once a decade, an effort is made to count every resident in the United States. The nation's first census was taken in 1790, as mandated by the Constitution. "This isn't our first rodeo as it relates ...

Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

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In tracing the blood line of her maternal grandmother, Martha Collins has gone six generations deep — back to 1870. In that year’s census — the first after the abolition of slavery — the Seattle woman ...

U.S. Census Bureau data newly released Thursday paints America as a more diverse and urban country today than it was 10 years ago. About 86% of the country’s population lives in metro areas, the ...

Every 10 years, the census counts every American wherever they live on one particular day: “Census Day.” Since 1930, that day has been April 1. This year, the millions charged with making door-to-door ...

The aim of House Democrats’ census ‘oversight’ is to influence the justices. Image: Getty The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down its decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case regarding ...

The U.S. Census must count every person in the country every ten years. It's in the Constitution. But some advocacy groups, from conservatives to Latinos, have concerns about whom the government ...