The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk

A little-known algorithmic process called “differential privacy” helps keep census data anonymous. Conservatives want it gone ...
Pew Research Center

Counting Race: How the Census Measures Identity and What Americans Think About It

How the U.S. government measures race has changed substantially since censuses began in 1790. Today, Americans differ on whether the government should ask about race.

Trump Admin Slowrolls Census Effort To Accurately Count Non-White Americans

Quyen Dinh didn’t even remember that, in 2024, she was selected as one of 23 appointees to the Census 2030 Advisory Committee. The group has been disbanded since March by order of President Donald ...
Opinion
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)Opinion

To Protect Democracy, We Must Protect Public Health Data

Preserving public health data is vital to our democracy. Data tell the story of who we are as a nation. It can inform policies that meet community needs, determine how government spends money, and ...

Congress Urged to Scrap Proposed Curb on Census Data Collection

An advocacy group for statisticians urged House lawmakers to strike a provision in a spending bill that would restrict the ...

Here’s where homeschooling is growing, according to U.S. Census Bureau data

Once the pandemic lockdown ended, researchers say homeschool numbers dipped a bit, but that decrease didn't last long. In ...
WBAL-TV

2020 Census data shows increase in Maryland's population

NEW 11 NEWS TONIGHT. WE’RE FINALLY SEEING THE DATA GATHERED IN LAST YEAR’S US CENSUS MARYLAND’S POPULATION INCREASED BY NEARLY 5% FROM 2010 TO 2019 TO A LITTLE MORE THAN SIX MILLION RESIDENTS, BUT ...