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 ...

Former U.S. Census Bureau Director Louis Kincannon told reporters today that he expects a successful 2010 U.S. census despite the agency’s decision last spring to cut back significantly on the use of ...

A group of black civil rights leaders, including the Reverends Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, met with Commerce Secretary Gary Locke this past week to discuss ways to improve the government's count of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Trump on Thursday said he had instructed the Department of Commerce to "immediately begin work on a new and highly ...

April 1 is National Census Day, which means there is a concerted push to get Americans to scribble out their information for counting by the government. The census will play a big role in everything ...

US Official Census Forms WARNING! Census phishing scams are floating around. Here’s the Census Bureau’s official list of 10 questions. Beware of emails or forms asking for Social Security or bank ...

The 2020 census may have undercounted the nation's Black population by as much as 7%, or more than three times the rate of the 2010 Census, according to simulations conducted by an independent ...