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Balloons decorate a 2019 event leading up to the 2020 census in Boston. The U.S. House has passed a bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other future counts from political interference.

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A bill to block census interference passed the House. Its Senate path is unclear

The U.S. House has passed a bill that could help protect the 2030 census and other future head counts from political interference. But it's not clear how much support the bill has in the Senate.

September 15, 2022
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Crowd walking down street

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  • Nation

New census data shows how Georgia changed from 2020 to 2021

New population estimates out today include information on age, race, and ethnicity in American counties and cities for the period up to July 2021.

July 01, 2022
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  • Rebecca Grapevine
Demonstrators hold signs saying "Count Me In" outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., in 2019, when the court blocked former President Donald Trump's administration from adding a citizenship question to 2020 census forms.

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  • National

What to know about the accuracy of the 2020 census — and why it matters for you

COVID-19 and interference by former President Donald Trump's administration have made it harder to pinpoint the accuracy of the numbers used to redistribute political representation and federal money.

March 11, 2022
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Traffic flows in and out of Helen, Ga., Friday, Jan. 21, 2022. Helen is located in White County, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northeast Georgia, where officials were stunned when the 2020 census said the county had 28,003 residents. A Census Bureau estimate from 2019 had put the county's population at 30,798 people.

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'Whoa, that's not right': Georgia towns lead census appeals

When officials in Chester, Georgia, heard that the 2020 census had pegged their small town at 525 people, their jaws dropped; they believed the town was almost triple that size. Chester and two other small municipalities in Georgia are the first communities in the U.S. to challenge the accuracy of their numbers from the once-a-decade head count that determines political representation and federal funding.

January 24, 2022
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  • Associated Press
A newly released Census Bureau email written during former President Donald Trump's administration — when Wilbur Ross, shown at a 2020 congressional hearing in Washington, D.C., served as the commerce secretary overseeing the census — details how officials interfered with the national head count.

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  • National

Trump officials interfered with the 2020 census beyond cutting it short, email shows

The email details the scope of the former administration's attempts to tamper with the count, including pressuring the Census Bureau to alter plans for protecting privacy and producing accurate data.

January 15, 2022
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang
Dancers perform during a promotional event for the U.S. census in New York City's Times Square in September 2020.

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  • National

The 2020 census likely left out people of color at rates higher than a decade ago

After COVID-19 disruptions and Trump administration interference, last year's national head count may have undercounted people of color at higher rates than in 2010, an Urban Institute study finds.

November 02, 2021
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
A person wearing a mask walks past posters encouraging census participation in Seattle in April 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted not only last year's national head count, but also a critical follow-up survey that the U.S. Census Bureau relies on to determine the tally's accuracy.

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  • National

How many people of color did the 2020 census miss? COVID makes it harder to tell

A final round of door knocking for a follow-up survey is now set to last until early 2022, raising concerns about whether the bureau can determine which groups were undercounted in the 2020 census.

October 09, 2021
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Growing numbers of Latinos identifying as "Some other race" for the U.S. census have boosted the category to become the country's second-largest racial group after "White." Researchers are concerned the catchall grouping obscures many Latinx people's identities and does not produce the data needed to address racial inequities.

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  • National

1 In 7 People Are 'Some Other Race' On The U.S. Census. That's A Big Data Problem

Growing numbers of Latinos turned a mysterious census category into the country's second-largest racial group. Researchers say that makes it harder to address racial inequities over the next decade.

October 01, 2021
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
Many at-home DNA ancestry testing kits require participants to mail in a sample of saliva.

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  • National

The Census Has Revealed A More Multiracial U.S. One Reason? Cheaper DNA Tests

Genetic ancestry tests, changes to how census responses were categorized and more children born to parents who identify with different racial groups led to a 276% jump in the multiracial population.

August 29, 2021
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  • Hansi Lo Wang

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  • National

This Is How The White Population Is Actually Changing Based On New Census Data

The white population is still the largest racial group in the U.S. Whether it is declining depends on how you define "white." Narrow definitions, researchers warn, can be misleading and dangerous.

August 22, 2021
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By:
  • Hansi Lo Wang and
  • Ruth Talbot
A woman examines a fresh bell pepper at an open-air market.

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  • Economy

People of Color Have More Spending Power Than Ever, Report Says

Minority groups' ability to spend on consumer goods outpaces the national average. That has many businesses scrambling to market their products in a new way.  These trends are detailed in a new analysis by the University of Georgia. Report author and economist Jeffrey Humphries, Director of Economic Forecasting at the Terry College of Business, joins GPB's Rickey Bevington to break down his findings.

August 20, 2021
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  • Rickey Bevington
State redistricting chairs Sen. John F. Kennedy and Rep. Bonnie Rich, center, conducted a public hearing Monday to launch Georgia's summer-long revamp of the state's political landscape.

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  • Politics

Partisanship, Self-Interest Poised To Drive Georgia's Redistricting Process

When Georgia lawmakers convene this fall to draw new legislative boundaries, they will bring a political eye to the process, colored by partisanship and a distinct self-interest in the outcome.

August 13, 2021
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  • David Armstrong ,
  • Sherry Liang ,
  • and 1 more
A census form lays on a table with pencil nearby.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Census Reveals Nation's Shifting Demographics, And Georgia Is No Different

On today's show, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveal a dramatic decline of population in rural Georgia. The news suggest a major shift in political power in the state is underway and will play a major role when legislators begin their redistricting session in the coming months.

August 13, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
  • and 1 more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp speaks to a state House committee in Atlanta on Monday, July 19, 2021. Kemp says he will ask lawmakers to consider new laws to combat crime in Atlanta during a special legislative session this fall.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Addressing Crime, An Uptick In Coronavirus Cases, And The Election Law In Georgia

Tuesday on Political Rewind: Gov. Brian Kemp says he’ll ask the General Assembly to pass laws to fight crime during a special session of the legislature later this year. The session’s primary mission will be to redraw political maps based on new census data. But Kemp has the power to add measures to combat violent crime, especially in Atlanta, to the agenda.

Plus, we look at the outcome of the U.S. Senate field hearing examining Georgia’s new voting law.

July 20, 2021
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Emilia Brock ,
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James F. Holmes, the first-ever person of color to oversee the U.S. head count, stands inside his office at the Census Bureau's former headquarters in Suitland, Md., in 1998, when Holmes served as acting director for about nine months.

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  • National

U.S. Census Directors Were All White Until James F. Holmes Stepped In

For more than 200 years, the census was overseen by white leaders. Holmes' 1998 stint as acting director blazed a trail for Biden's pick, who may become the count's first permanent director of color.

July 18, 2021
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  • Hansi Lo Wang
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