The U.S. Census Bureau spent about $5.9 billion on IT contracts to help prepare the agency’s systems and technology for the 2020 census survey, according to a government watchdog report. Federal IT ...

The U.S. Census Bureau on Wednesday said it was putting on hold plans to apply by 2025 a controversial method for protecting the privacy of participants in its most comprehensive survey of Americans ...

Illinois may not be losing population after all. An undercount in the 2020 census missed 46,400 Illinois residents living in group homes, an adjustment to the population base that will be incorporated ...

BEND, Ore. (AP) — John Thompson, who guided preparations for the 2020 census as director of the U.S. Census Bureau, has died. BEND, Ore. (AP) — John Thompson, who guided preparations for the 2020 ...

In November 2022, we received an email from a reader about a letter received in the mail from the U.S. Postal Service. The reader asked if the letter about an "American Community Survey" that bore the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By MIKE SCHNEIDER (Associated Press) New results from a U.S. Census Bureau simulation indicate a significant number of noncitizens were missed in the 2020 ...

I thought they do this every 10 years. The last one was in 2020. Answer: The 2024 Census Survey “is being conducted as part of a small-scale testing program aimed at gathering initial data about ...

FILE - Then-Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos is ...