Census

Here’s what to know about our changing state and how political boundaries could affect you. Lolita Lopez reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021.

Redistricting political boundaries based on the recent U.S Census is happening in California.

The results of the 2020 headcount have many Latino and Black communities concerned about whether the latest numbers are accurate

U.S. Census Bureau computer servers were exploited last year during a cybersecurity attack, but it didn’t involve the 2020 census.

“In the rural areas, if you didn’t have the Latino growth, employers would be struggling even more just to fill those positions,” a Nebraska research coordinator said of the state.

Growth in the number of people who identified as multiracial on 2020 census responses soared over the last decade, rising from under 3% to more than 10% of the U.S. population

The U.S. Census Bureau has released new population data that will be used to reshape U.S. House seats and state legislative districts for the next decade

The Census Bureau is due to release new data on the changing U.S. population

The U.S. Census Bureau plans to release a trove of data from the 2020 census that should show Latinos have been key to the nation’s last decade of growth — launching a fight to ensure that growth is reflected in political representation.

The U.S. Census Bureau on Monday released state population totals that determine the number of House seats each state gets out of 435. According to the data, southern states grew the fastest, with a 10.2% overall increase in population.

California’s population growth has slipped over the past decade at the lowest rate since at least 1900. Therefore, the state is facing the prospect of losing a U.S. House seat for the first time in history.

The Census Bureau’s missed deadlines could spell bad news for Democrats in Virginia and Republicans in New Jersey in legislative elections this year

The U.S. Census Bureau is aiming to deliver the long-delayed numbers used for divvying up congressional seats by the end of April

The Census Bureau says it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats.

When census takers tried to count the nation’s homeless population, they ran into many problems that could threaten the accuracy of the effort

The fate of this year’s census remains uncertain as the deadline to finalize the numbers approaches and experts express doubt about the government’s ability to produce an accurate count of the country under such tight constraints.

The Supreme Court has dismissed as premature a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plan to exclude people living in the country illegally from the population count used to allot states seats in the House of Representatives

The Supreme Court is hearing arguments over whether the Trump administration can exclude people in the country illegally from the count used for divvying up congressional seats

The director of the Census Bureau says irregularities have been found during the numbers-crunching phase of the 2020 census.

For the second time in two months, a panel of federal judges has blocked President Donald Trump’s effort to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from being counted during the process of divvying up congressional seats by state.