Uncle Sam to Americans: Stand still so we can count you. March 15, 2010 -- And we're off! The U.S. government's once-a-decade attempt to document the country's population kicks off today as over 120 ...

Stories about the 2010 Census account for a growing — albeit small — fraction of U.S. news coverage, according to statistics compiled by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

New figures from the U.S. Census Bureau show the total population of the nation has risen to more than 308 million. The population increased by 9.7 percent from 2000 to 2010, the slowest rate of ...

On Jan. 21, 2010, the Pew Research Center hosted a conversation about the 2010 Decennial Census with Director of the U.S. Bureau of the Census Robert Groves and a panel of experts. Groves discussed ...

(AP) WASHINGTON - The 2010 census missed more than 1.5 million minorities after struggling to count black Americans, Hispanics, renters and young men, but was mostly accurate, the government said ...

What happens if I don’t respond? Will I be fined or punished in any way? Although the law makes it a crime not to answer the decennial census, the American Community Survey and other mandatory ...

When Republican Senator Judd Gregg announced on Thursday that he no longer wished to be the Commerce Secretary nominee, he said that the decision was based in part on serious disagreements with the ...

In today’s Washington, even the Census Bureau is a source of drama. The department has no director. Due to funding constraints, it has abandoned pre-census research in West Virginia and Washington ...

The census’ official count of the American population is not ready yet, but the Census Bureau is issuing a progress report. The bureau said Tuesday, for instance, that its 2010 count would cost about ...

The 2020 census may have undercounted the nation's Black population by as much as 7%, or more than three times the rate of the 2010 Census, according to simulations conducted by an independent ...