The census is coming, the census is coming! Next year, the government conducts its decennial count of all U.S. residents. It's a daunting task fraught with political potholes, which Census director ...

Just one year from now, America will embark on our nation’s largest peacetime project … Census 2010. Since I became chairman of the House Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and National ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

Conducting a national head count isn't easy or cheap. It gets even more complicated -- and expensive -- when efforts to modernize the decennial census fall short. The idea for 2010 was that half a ...

Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.

The fate of the Trump administration’s census citizenship question rests in the hands of the Supreme Court, but debate over the issue has been swirling in Congress. During Commerce Secretary Wilbur ...