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Inside the data that debunks the ‘Great Replacement’ theory

Versions of the conspiracy theory have existed for decades or even centuries – but the data doesn’t support the claims, writes Andrew Buncombe

The Independent UK

Report: Census Bureau backlogged on background checks

The U.S. Census Bureau has a backlog of cases involving workers who were flagged for problems in their background checks

The Independent UK

Census ready to study combining race, ethnicity questions

U.S. Bureau officials say they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire

The Independent UK

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Motherhood deferred: US median age for giving birth hits 30

Over the past three decades, birthrates have declined for women in their 20s and jumped for women in their late 30s and early 40s

The Independent UK

100s of US urban areas will become rural with new criteria

Hundreds of the urban areas in the U.S. are becoming rural, and it’s not because of anything they’ve done

The Independent UK

2022 best cities for freelancers

Using recent metro-area data from the U.S. Census Bureau and state-level data from the Federation of State Tax Administrators, NerdWallet’s list of the 10 best cities for freelancers includes places where housing and income taxes tended to be relatively more affordable, freelancer culture was vibrant and there were signs of…

The Independent UK

Homebuyers face mortgage cliff

Homebuyers are facing a double whammy of higher prices and higher mortgage rates, which reduce the amount of money they can borrow to buy a house.

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Census undercount risks funding for Native American reservations

WASHINGTON — Native Americans on reservations face another decade of underfunding from federal programs because thousands were not counted in the 2020 census — a problem shared by minority communities across the country.

Tribune News Service

Census undercount risks funding for Native American reservations - Roll Call

Native Americans on reservations face another decade of underfunding from federal programs because thousands weren't counted in the census.

Roll Call

Experts: Asian population overcount masks community nuances

Officials say they overcounted the Asian population by 2.6% in the 2020 U.S. census

The Independent UK

More Chicago residents in 2020 census identify as Native American

But Dorene Wiese, president of the American Indian Association of Illinois and a longtime Chicago resident, says it’s an undercount that could hurt Native American communities.

Chicago Sun-Times

Where are immigrants moving in the US?

Between 2020 and 2021, the US population grew by 393,000 people. That’s one of the lowest single year population increases on record. By comparison, between 2014 and 2015, the US grew by 2.4 million residents, six times higher than last year’s increase.

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Q&A: Census Bureau director on ‘transformational’ changes — and SXSW

Robert L. Santos did not get to shoot concerts at the South by Southwest festival this year because, as the new Census Bureau director, “I have a day job now.”

Tribune News Service

The census missed some folks. These cities want them counted

When the 2020 census found that tiny McNab, Arkansas, had lost more than half its residents, Mayor James Conway went door to door and found 45 people in the rural town instead of the 30 reported by the census.

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Census Bureau director on 'transformational' changes — and SXSW - Roll Call

Robert L. Santos wants to eliminate silos the Census Bureau has built between data products it produces for other agencies.

The Independent UK

Detroit is largest city to challenge 2020 census numbers

Majority-Black Detroit has become the largest city to challenge its figures from the 2020 census following a national head count in which the U.S. Census Bureau acknowledges African Americans were undercounted

The Independent UK

Bureau looking at adjusting for undercounts in some numbers

The U.S. Census Bureau is looking at ways to possibly adjust its annual population estimates to account for the undercounts of some minority groups in the 2020 census numbers

Chicago Sun-Times

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Reason

Supreme Court Reminds Us That the Best Answer to Unwanted Speech Is More Speech

Plus: On tipping and slavery, cities see population declines, and more...

The Conversation

2020 census miscounted Americans – 4 questions answered

_The census conducted in the U.S. every 10 years is meant to count everyone. But it doesn’t actually count everyone.

The Independent UK

LOCALIZE IT: A guide to shaping U.S. Census data coverage

The pandemic has intensified ongoing population trends of recent years and created some new ones. New data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau showed that, in the first full year of the pandemic, there was an exodus from the nation’s largest metros and rapid growth in Sunbelt metro areas.…

The Independent UK

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed

Policymakers and demographers have been asking whether it's time to rethink the census after results released last week that showed Black, Hispanic and American Indian residents were undercounted in greater rates in 2020 than a decade ago

Tribune News Service

Census Bureau considering changes after minority undercounts

WASHINGTON — Census Bureau Director Robert Santos suggested changes the agency may take to the next decennial census after undercounts in minority communities worsened in the 2020 count amid the coronavirus pandemic and endemic mistrust in government.

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Census Bureau considering changes after minority undercounts - Roll Call

Census Bureau Director Robert Santos says changes may be ahead for the next census after undercounts worsened in the 2020 count.

The Independent UK

US grew wealthier, better educated in 2nd half of 2010s

New data released by the Census Bureau shows the U.S. grew wealthier, better educated and poverty declined during the second half of the last decade

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