Tag: Census Bureau

People wait in line to apply for passports at the Administrative Service of Identification, Migration, and Foreigners (SAIME) in Caracas, Venezuela, on Tuesday, Sept. 18, 2018.

Census: Highest immigrant population in 100 years, over half Latinos

Paul Bedard · February 20, 2019 4:11 pm

In this Sept. 18, 2018 photo Sameeha Alkamalee Jabbar, a 38-year-old from Orange County sits during a naturalization ceremony in Los Angeles.

Census Bureau: 75 million more immigrants by 2060, 95% of future US growth

Paul Bedard · February 5, 2019 9:31 am

FILE - This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census. A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states. But not a single Republican attorney general has sued _ not even from states with large immigrant populations.

Trump administration to ask Supreme Court to take up census case, bypassing appeals court

Melissa Quinn · January 22, 2019 9:43 pm

In this June 22, 2018, photo, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, testifies before a House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Space Subcommittee and House Armed Services Committee Strategic Forces Subcommittee joint hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Ross says he is selling off all his vast stock holdings after news reports raised questions about the timing of some of his stock transactions and he received a sharp reprimand from the chief federal ethics officer.

House Democrats to quiz Wilbur Ross on census citizenship question

Kelly Cohen · January 22, 2019 3:40 pm

Last month, the Department of Justice asked the Census Bureau to return a question about citizenship status to the 2020 census. The DOJÃ¢â¬â¢s reason was to gather data to better enforce the Voting Rights Act.

Federal judge blocks Trump administration from adding citizenship question to 2020 census

Melissa Quinn · January 15, 2019 3:03 pm

This March 23, 2018 file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 Census.

Congress should come to its senses and end the census

Ross Marchand · January 15, 2019 5:00 am

A map from the U.S. Census Bureau shows various counties in Virginia (bottom half) and Maryland (top half) within the D.C. metropolitan area.

Circling the Swamp? The five US counties with highest household incomes surround DC

Katelyn Caralle · December 7, 2018 8:14 pm

Beltway Confidential

No, women do not make 49 cents for every dollar a man makes

Tiana Lowe Doescher · December 7, 2018 3:50 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in D.C.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to postpone trial in census case

Diana Stancy Correll · October 30, 2018 12:04 am

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room.

Appeals court denies Trump administration's request to block Wilbur Ross deposition in census question challenge

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 9:37 pm

Undocumented students join a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. President Donald Trump says he'll be announcing a decision on the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children in the coming days, immigrants he's calling "terrific" and says he loves. Trump told reporters Friday, using a short-hand term for the nearly 800,000 young people who were given a reprieve from deportation and temporary work permits under the Obama-era DACA, program.

Will the US Census citizenship question be censored?

Karen Lugo · September 27, 2018 4:00 am

Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of N.Y., speaks about healthcare, Monday, Sept. 18, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Senate Republicans are revving up a final push to scuttle President Barack Obama's health care law. Though the effort faces low odds of success and just a two-week window to prevail, Democrats backed by doctors, hospitals, and patients' groups are mustering an all-out effort to smother the GOP drive once and for all.

Beltway Confidential

New census data undermines Democratic attack of Trump 'sabotage' of Obamacare

Philip Klein · September 12, 2018 3:14 pm