After months of headlines, presidential tweets and a Supreme Court decision, the 2020 Census will not ask people about their citizenship status. President Donald Trump and his advisers tried to add ...

At the beginning of April, all Americans will be asked to participate in a special event that takes places once every 10 years: the census. The nation will be examining and tabulating the sizes and ...

The United States is currently undertaking its population census, the once-a-decade effort to count every single person living here. More than 150 other countries will join in this world census ...

The Trump administration's proposal that questions about citizenship be added to the 2020 census has caused a political firestorm. Democrats claim this would discourage people from filling out their ...

In April, the Supreme Court began to hear arguments about one of the central requirements of the Constitution. It’s right there, in Article I, Section 2, clause 3: For a government of the people to ...

An exhibition at the New-York Historical Society explores how the census has shaped America. By Sam Roberts This article is part of our latest special report on Museums, which focuses on the ...

The aim of House Democrats’ census ‘oversight’ is to influence the justices. Image: Getty The Supreme Court on Thursday handed down its decision in Department of Commerce v. New York, a case regarding ...

Finding a long-lost uncle’s name on a census form or discovering that Grandpa identified himself as a mural painter: It’s the stuff genealogists and history hunters live for. It also creates the kind ...

Lawmakers are set to question the Justice Department Friday about why it requested the 2020 census to ask about citizenship. The history of using the U.S. census to ask about citizenship has many ...

Emily Klancher Merchant has received funding from the National Science Foundation. She is a member of the Population Association of America. The 2020 U.S. Census is still two years away, but experts ...