The first official census took place in 1790, the same year that Congress passed ... census numbers help us measure who is being excluded and what we are doing about it. This is because the ...

Some blacks, however, were living free. The census of 1790 revealed that 59,000 free blacks lived in the United States -- approximately 27,000 in the North and 32,000 in the South. By 1830 ...

US Census officials have completed their once-a-decade count of the American population, showing the second slowest growth in recorded history. Texas and Florida, two Republican titans of the ...

The Census Bureau and Commerce Department defeated claims Tuesday that their apportionment of congressional representatives ...

“I do think, for us, understanding who is here now ... all other free people and slaves — during the 1790 census, a Pew Research report shows. Changes were slowly made through the 1800s ...

Even as they position the United States outside the standard track of state development, histories of criminal law in the United States still trace its evolution along a parallel route, demonstrating ...

Hispanic Heritage Month officially starts in the United States, where close to 20% of its population identifies as Latino or ...

It never felt right to Bader Risheg to check off “white” on the U.S. census and other federal forms ... Chang said. “Lumping us together in one category obscured what our community ...

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While the next Census isn't until 2030, the agency sends out other mailers in advance to help plan for that task. If you received one of these mailers, you must complete the survey by Oct. 31.

The percentage of U.S. residents born outside the country reached its highest level in more than a century in 2023.