Tag: Census Bureau

Health insurance coverage unchanged in Trump’s first year

Robert King · September 12, 2018 2:52 pm

Many researchers see a flaw in the official income and poverty rate, namely that it only counts cash income and excludes some of the in-kind government benefits that have grown in recent years, such as food stamps. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Incomes hit new record high and poverty fell to pre-recession low in 2017

Joseph Lawler · September 12, 2018 2:27 pm

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.

Abolish the census

Ross Marchand · August 13, 2018 4:00 am

Sexual orientation, gender identity would be counted in census under new bill

Kimberly Leonard · July 31, 2018 8:08 pm

White House study finds many safety-net beneficiaries could work but don’t

Joseph Lawler · July 12, 2018 1:00 pm

A Trump administration plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 Census has prompted legal challenges from many Democratic-led states.

Alabama sues federal government for counting illegal immigrants in Census

Melissa Quinn · May 22, 2018 5:23 pm

Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., speaks at a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on the 2020 Census, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in Washington.

Trey Gowdy threatens to subpoena official who pushed for census citizenship question

Melissa Quinn · May 8, 2018 8:44 pm

State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, left, talks to reporters accompanied by Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de Leon, D-Lois Angeles, second from left; Sen. Isadore Hall III, D-Compton, third from and left and Sen. Loni Hancock, D-Berkeley, at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, June 30, 2016. Jackson is chairwoman of the powerful judiciary committee as well as the California Legislative Women's Caucus. Jacksonâs legislative accomplishments include what was considered the strongest equal pay legislation in the country.

California’s equal pay bill: What’s an extra billion in annual regulatory costs among friends?

Chuck DeVore · May 1, 2018 4:00 am

Washington Secrets

Census pushback: 6 national population surveys, three agencies, asked about citizenship

Paul Bedard · March 29, 2018 2:47 pm

A frivolous lawsuit against Trump’s census question

Washington Examiner · March 29, 2018 12:00 am

The 2020 U.S. Census will add a question about citizenship status, a move that brought swift condemnation from Democrats who said it would intimidate immigrants and discourage them from participating.

NAACP sues Trump administration over 2020 census concerns

Melissa Quinn · March 28, 2018 9:12 pm

Beltway Confidential

Only in the US is it controversial for the census to ask about citizenship

Hans von Spakovsky · March 28, 2018 8:14 pm