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Census Bureau chief defends new privacy tool against critics
Read full article: Census Bureau chief defends new privacy tool against criticsThe U.S. Census Bureau’s chief is defending a new tool meant to protect the privacy of people participating in the agency’s questionnaires against calls to abandon it by prominent researchers and demographers.
Clinging to ancient faith, India tribes seek religion status
Read full article: Clinging to ancient faith, India tribes seek religion statusIndia’s 110 million indigenous tribespeople are scattered across various states and fragmented into hundreds of clans, with different legends, different languages and different words for their gods.
Hurricane hit areas led US with missing 2020 census data
Read full article: Hurricane hit areas led US with missing 2020 census dataTwo Louisiana parishes devastated by two hurricanes and two rural Nebraska counties had among the highest rates of households with missing information about themselves during the 2020 census that required the U.S. Census Bureau to use a statistical technique to fill in gaps.
Report: Some census takers who fudged data didn't get fired
Read full article: Report: Some census takers who fudged data didn't get firedA watchdog group has determined that some census takers who falsified information during the 2020 census didn’t have their work redone fully, weren’t fired in a timely manner and in some cases even received bonuses.
House OKs bill to curb political interference with census
Read full article: House OKs bill to curb political interference with censusThe House has passed legislation on a party-line vote that aims to make it harder for future presidents to interfere in the once-a-decade headcount that determines political power and federal funding.
US moved online, worked more from home as pandemic raged
Read full article: US moved online, worked more from home as pandemic ragedDuring the first two years of the pandemic, the number of people working from home tripled, home values grew and the percentage of people who spend more than a third of their income on rent went up.
AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in count
Read full article: AP interview: Census director aims to restore trust in countThe next U.S. census isn’t until 2030, but already Census Bureau leaders are looking for ways to adapt to a roiled civic climate that only seems to be getting more contentious.
Sudden arena idea angers, unnerves Philadelphia's Chinatown
Read full article: Sudden arena idea angers, unnerves Philadelphia's ChinatownOrganizers and members of Philadelphia's Chinatown say they were surprised by the 76ers' announcement that they hope to build a $1.3 billion arena just a block from the community’s gateway arch.
Bill attempts to prevent political meddling in US head count
Read full article: Bill attempts to prevent political meddling in US head countA U.S. Census Bureau director couldn’t be fired without cause and new questions to a census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation that attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation’s head count that took place during the Trump administration.
Arizona county had largest white, Black, Hispanic growth
Read full article: Arizona county had largest white, Black, Hispanic growthMetro Phoenix’s Maricopa County had among the biggest growth in white, Black and Hispanic residents last year, as well as the biggest increase overall of any U.S. county.
Feds taking first steps toward revising race, ethnic terms
Read full article: Feds taking first steps toward revising race, ethnic termsThe federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that haven't been changed in a quarter century following calls for better categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering.
In 2 states, 1 in 20 residents missed during US head count
Read full article: In 2 states, 1 in 20 residents missed during US head countAround 1 in 20 residents in Arkansas and Tennessee were missed during the 2020 census, and four other U.S. states had significant undercounts of their populations which could shortchange them of federal funding in the current decade.