New U.S. Census Bureau data shows the gender wage gap widened in 2024 for the second year in a row, marking a blow to women's ...

A Gallup poll shows fewer Americans consider college essential, but new Census data reveals a stark pay gap between workers ...

Incomes are rising and poverty is dropping while access to health care remains steady. That's according to the latest Census ...

Most Americans’ median household income was basically unchanged between 2023 and 2024 when factoring in inflation, according ...

It's a massive obligation of federal resources that takes an entire decade to put together in preparation and development," said Howard Fienberg.

The U.S. Census Bureau is asking states for drivers’ license records that typically include citizenship data and has made a new request for information on recipients of government assistance, alarming ...

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The 2024 American Community Survey measured labor markets, personal income, health insurance and other factors in Maine and ...

The gap in income between Seattle households headed by an Asian person and those headed by a Black person was about $77,700 ...

Meddling in the census fits into the Trump administration’s broader efforts to manipulate data and institutions to skew elections in his party’s favor.

Some experts are arguing that it’s time for the census to aggressively make use of government data and other sources to augment its own decennial count. By Michael Wines WASHINGTON — Beyond the ...

This whole debate may, by itself, scare undocumented immigrants away from responding to the census — which opponents charged was the true goal in the first place. President Trump and his ...