Tag: census
A major census test begins recruiting workers as some warn about delays
Hansi Lo Wang The next U.S. census isn’t scheduled to be taken until 2030, but the federal government says help is wanted well before then in six states for the national head count’s major field test. Recruiting door knockers and other temporary workers for the “2026 Census Test” starts Monday in parts of Alabama, Arizona,…
Trump official tells census workers Congress has final say over the count, not Trump
Hansi Lo Wang Less than a week after President Trump said he has ordered a “new” census, the cabinet official who oversees the Census Bureau acknowledged Tuesday that Congress, not the president, has final say over the national head count that’s used to reshape election maps and guide federal funding, NPR has exclusively learned. Speaking…
Exoplanet Census Identifies ‘Missing Planets’ Gap
Where Are the Universe’s Missing Planets? Planet demographics reveal a puzzling lack of worlds in a certain size range throughout the galaxy By Dakotah Tyler edited by Clara Moskowitz For centuries our solar system was the only planetary system known to humans. We had no proof other worlds existed beyond those in our own cosmic…
Trump rescinds Biden’s census order, clearing a path for reshaping election maps
Hansi Lo Wang Among the dozens of Biden-era executive orders that President Trump revoked on Monday was one that had reversed the first Trump administration’s unprecedented policy of altering a key set of census results. Since the first U.S. census in 1790, no resident has ever been omitted from those numbers because of immigration status.…