Each month the Census Counts team compiles Census-related news from a wide swath of national and regional media outlets to keep data equity stakeholders informed and engaged.
As always, you can find earlier clips here.
May 27, 2025 Census Coalition Clips
National
AP | News US children of divorce have reduced earnings, increased chances of teen births and jail, study says
U.S. children whose parents divorce when they are age 5 or younger have reduced earnings as adults and increased chances by young adulthood of teen pregnancy, incarceration and death, according to a study released this month. After a divorce, a household’s income typically is halved as a family splits into two households, and it struggles to recover that lost income over the ensuing decade. Families after divorce also tend to move to neighborhoods with lower incomes that offer reduced economic opportunities, and children are farther away from their non-custodial parent, according to the working paper by economists at the University of California, Merced; the U.S. Census Bureau; and the University of Maryland.
Mike Schneider | May 26, 2025
NPR | News DOGE created a ‘survey of surveys’ for a push to cut some government data collection
In a new push to end some U.S. government surveys, the Trump administration’s DOGE team has created its own. This week, Ethan Shaotran, a member of the unit set up by President Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk, used a General Services Administration email address to send a seven-page form titled “2025 Survey of Surveys” to federal agencies, according to documents NPR obtained from a federal agency official who was not authorized to share it with the press. The move raises questions about whether the controversial team is bypassing the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, where federal law set up a subagency to oversee the federal government’s statistical activities.
Hansi Lo Wang | May 23, 2025
AP | News DOGE targets Census Bureau, worrying data users about health of US data infrastructure
The group launched by Elon Musk to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting some U.S. Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful,” worrying users of federal data who are already concerned about the health of the nation’s statistical infrastructure. The Department of Government Efficiency said on social media this week that five surveys costing $16.5 million that are conducted by the statistical agency for other federal agencies have been “terminated.” It didn’t specify which ones. The DOGE post said some of the questions on the eliminated surveys asked about alcohol consumption and the frequency of home internet use.
Other surveys are being reviewed “one-by-one,” said Tuesday’s post on DOGE’s X account. The Census Bureau didn’t respond this week to an inquiry seeking comment.
Mike Schneider | May 23, 2025
TIME | News Losing NOAA’s Natural Disaster Data Will Make Storms More Devastating for the Poor
On May 8, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced that its well-known “billion-dollar weather and climate disasters” database “will be retired.” As part of the Trump administration’s focus on killing programs associated with “climate,” this irreproducible source of information for taxpayers, media, and researchers will soon no longer be able to track the devastating cost of natural disasters. But low-income communities—who are at the greatest risk of these disasters—are about to feel the biggest blowback.
Jeremy Ney | May 21, 2025
Ms. Magazine | News Why Democracy Needs Data—and What Happens When It Vanishes
In the first few months of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, one thing has become crystal clear: The war on gender and racial equity is being waged in a new arena—on the battleground of data. This fight isn’t waged with tweets or soundbites. It’s carried out through budget cuts, shuttered research programs and disappearing federal surveys. It’s a quiet but devastating assault on the tools we rely on to tell the truth—and to hold those in power accountable. And the message is chilling: If we can’t measure inequality, maybe we can pretend it doesn’t exist. We write this as two women leading a national research institute dedicated to truth-telling.
Kate Bahn, Jamila K. Taylor | May 20, 2025
States
New York
Times Union | News Experts push for state census office to prevent loss of NY congressional seats
Amid projections for New York to lose at least two more congressional seats after the 2030 census count, a bill that would create a state census office for more accurate counting is being considered at the Capitol. Every 10 years, census count results are used to calculate the number of congressional seats each state is entitled to. But since the 1950s, New York has lost at least two congressional seats with every census count — falling from 45 to the current 26. In 2020, the state lost one seat after the count came up 89 people short. “To go back to losing two or more districts is not very promising for New York’s future strength in Washington, New York’s power in Washington,” said Jeff Wice, a professor at New York Law School.
Ashley Soebroto | May 27, 2025
Blog Posts and Reports
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release — May 22, 2025
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data products from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions and projections on an ongoing basis. The BTOS includes data for multiunit/multilocation businesses. BTOS will continue to collect data complementary to key items found on other economic surveys, such as revenues, employees, hours, and inventories. Work from home (WFH) supplemental questions were added to the BTOS for one cycle (11/4/2024-1/26/2025). Existing measures of WFH reveal significant data gaps in understanding its scope, particularly from the business perspective.
Julie Iriondo | May 22, 2025
May 19, 2025 Census Coalition Clips
National
The Guardian | News Cooking the books? Fears Trump could target statisticians if data disappoints
A proposed rule change making it easier to fire civil servants deemed to be “intentionally subverting presidential directives” could pave the way for the White House to fire statisticians employed to produce objective data on the economy but whose figures prove politically inconvenient, experts warn. Statistics released by agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) are used by the Federal Reserve Bank to set inflation policy and interest rates.
Robert Tait | May 18, 2025
Mother Jones | News Redlining Shaped the Power Grid. Communities of Color Are Still Paying the Price.
Across the United States, a quarter of all low-income households—roughly 23 million people—struggle to pay their energy bills. In most major US cities, including Detroit and Philadelphia, these one out-of-four low-income households pay 15 percent or more of their incomes on average on electricity, cooling and heat. In Los Angeles, this group pays just over 14 percent of their household income on utility bills. These energy burdens have persisted for decades, despite billions of dollars from federal and state governments subsidizing electricity bills in low-income communities. And now, Trump’s administration has gutted the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, which provides heating and cooling subsidies for 6 million households.
Mario Alejandro Ariza | May 18, 2025
NPR | News Trump’s DOJ focuses in on voter fraud, with a murky assist from DOGE
Trump and his allies have for years pushed the false narrative that non-U.S. citizens are voting in large numbers in federal elections, but nothing in these initial charges points to any widespread conspiracy. The charges also come as the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division turns its focus from its longtime mission of protecting the constitutional rights of all Americans to enforcing the president’s executive orders. And according to federal officials, at least some of the initial cases relate to work done by the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, though the government has not disclosed many details on how the Elon Musk-led group was involved.
Miles Parks, Jude Joffe-Block | May 17, 2025
USA Today | News Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. How many people would that impact?
For 157 years, birthright citizenship has made anyone born in the United States a citizen – whether they are the child of citizens, foreign nationals living legally in the U.S. or unauthorized immigrants. Earlier this year President Trump signed an executive order which seeks to restrict this right, which was established by the 14th Amendment in 1868. The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday (May 15) about the order, which would require at least one parent to be U.S. citizen or have permanent residency. Changes to birthright laws would impact a large portion of the U.S. population. According to 2023 data from the U.S. Census, 22.8 million foreign-born, non-U.S. citizens live in the country.
Ramon Padilla and Sara Chernikoff | May 17, 2025
The Slate | News Census 2024: Why big cities like New York and Los Angeles are finally growing again.
Last year was a banner year for big-city population growth. According to new Census estimates released on Thursday, large U.S. cities added residents at a rapid clip between July 2023 and July 2024—cutting into post-pandemic declines and in some cases surpassing even the urban growth rate of the 2010s. Sun Belt cities recorded the fastest percentage growth, but post-industrial cities like Philly, Detroit, and Newark also added thousands of people. At first glance, the numbers seem to confirm that pandemic-era population loss has bottomed out, and U.S. cities are on the upswing again. The masking era is in the rearview mirror, the economy is humming, and violent crime is dropping to levels that most Americans have never experienced.
Henry Grabar | May 16, 2025
GovTech | News Does the Federal Government Have a Right to States’ Data?
A federal executive order (EO) issued in March has created questions about the government’s right to access states’ data — especially in cases where that information was collected with a promise of privacy. Governments have increasingly prioritized inclusive data collection practices, taking into consideration things like disability and gender identity — in part as preparation for AI deployment. This shift broadens the need for governments to protect privacy, especially as federal data collection by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) creates concerns. A March 20 EO issued by President Donald Trump, “Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos,” raises questions for some.
Julie Edinger | May 14, 2025
The Conversation | News How Asian American became a racial grouping – and why many with Asian roots don’t identify with the term these days
For the first time, in 1990, May was officially designated as a month honoring Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage. Though the current U.S. administration recently withdrew federal recognition, the month continues to be celebrated by a wide array of people from diverse cultural backgrounds. People from the Pacific Islands have their own distinct histories and issues, delineated in part by a specific geography. Yet when we refer to the even broader category of Asian Americans, a concept with a deep yet often unknown history, who exactly are we referring to? There are nearly 25 million people of Asian descent who live in the United States, but the term Asian American remains shrouded by cultural misunderstanding and contested as a term among Asians themselves.
Jennifer Ho | May 13, 2025
States
Alabama
Al.com | News See the 2024 population change in every Alabama city and town
Alabama grew last year, adding about 40,000 new residents. And nearly two thirds of the state’s 67 counties gained population. And we now know more about which parts of the state grew — and which ones shrank — thanks to new population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau last week. The census estimated populations for cities and towns across the United States as of July 2024. In Alabama, estimates were made for 463 places, from tiny Oak Hill — home to just nine people — to bustling Huntsville, Alabama’s largest city.
Ramsey Archibald | May 18, 2025
Michigan
Detroit Free Press | News Detroit population grows for 2nd straight year after periods of decline, Census data shows
Detroit’s population grew for the second year in a row, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Detroit’s population grew to reach 645,705 residents in 2024 compared with 638,914 in the 2023 estimate. In May 2024, the census initially reported that Detroit’s population was 633,218 for the year 2023. But the bureau, as of May 15, corrected the 2023 total to 638,914. The latest gains were attributed to an increase of 6,791 Detroiters in 2024 alone, and the addition of 5,696 residents from 2021 to 2023, which the bureau acknowledged had not been included in the population estimates, according to the city. That means 12,487 additional residents have been counted between 2021 and 2024.
Dana Afana | May 15, 2025
Texas
AP News | News A Texas suburb that saw its population jump by a third is the fastest-growing city in the US
The fastest-growing city in the U.S. last year was a Dallas suburb that saw its population jump by nearly a third. The number of residents in Princeton, located about 46 miles (74 kilometers) north of Dallas, increased from about 28,000 to 37,000 from 2023 to 2024, the U.S. Census Bureau said Thursday. The growth has come so quickly that the city — which more than doubled its population since 2020 — has struggled to build roads and infrastructure fast enough as it transforms from a farming community.
Jamie Stengle | May 16, 2025
Blog Posts and Reports
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Remembering John H. Thompson
It is with great sadness I share news of the passing of former U.S. Census Bureau Director John H. Thompson, who was a member of the Census Bureau family for over 30 years and played a critical role in two of this century’s censuses. At his 2013 Senate confirmation hearing, Mr. Thompson said, “My goal will be to leave a legacy of innovation in all areas and in all levels of the Census Bureau and to design a 2020 Census that represents a fundamental change for the future.” That statement perfectly encapsulates his commitment to innovation and modernization.
Ron S. Jarmin | May 15, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Population Growth Reported Across Cities and Towns in All U.S. Regions
Cities of all sizes grew on average from 2023 to 2024 with Southern and Western cities experiencing accelerated growth. Topping the list of fastest-growing cities was Princeton, Texas with a remarkable 30.6% growth rate, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 estimates released today. New York City, Houston and Los Angeles saw the greatest numeric gains during this time and some cities in the Northeast and Midwest marked their first population increase in recent years.
Angelica Vasquez | May 15, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Census Bureau Releases 2023 Nonemployer Statistics
The U.S. Census Bureau today released the 2023 Nonemployer Statistics (NES). NES provides annual subnational economic data about businesses that have no paid employees and are subject to federal income tax with receipts of $1,000 or more ($1 or more for the Construction sector). Receipts comprise the total net revenue a business receives from all sources before deducting expenses, as defined by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), including sales of goods or services sold, income from investments, and fees and commissions.
Patricia Ramos | May 15, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Business Formation Statistics Monthly Data Release — April 2025
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for April 2025. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration with economists affiliated with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the University of Maryland, and the University of Notre Dame.
Julie Iriondo
May 12, 2025 Census Coalition Clips
National
If You Can Keep It | News DOGE’s data “panopticon” pales compared to what’s next
For the first time in American history, the federal government appears to be assembling a single, unified database on all its citizens. While federal agencies hold a wide spectrum of information on citizens, state governments are the keepers of even more granular, specific data on Americans, including sensitive personal information. Data on everything from students’ education records to DMV files to voter history to sexual orientation and gender identity to data on abortion and other medical history — all of that is collected and managed at the state level, not in DC. And now the White House aims to coerce states into handing over their data with the undeniable potential that it too will be added to DOGE’s growing, centralized database.
Nicole Schneidman | May 12, 2025
The Cool Down | News Federal government abruptly shuts down science centers monitoring national safety risks: ‘Nobody knows what happens’
As The Guardian detailed, the White House ordered the closure of 25 scientific centers that monitor U.S. water levels for flooding and drought while also managing supply levels to save communities from running out of water. The data produced by the United States Geological Service water science centers “plays a critical role across the economy to protect human life, protect property, maintain water supplies and help clean up chemical or oil spills.”
Doric Sam | May 11, 2025
The Appeal | News Trump DOJ Erases Trans People from Crime Data Surveys
Trans people are more than four times as likely to experience violent crime. Behind bars, incarcerated trans Americans experience sexual violence at more than 12 times the rate of other imprisoned people, according to U.S. Department of Justice survey data. Despite these statistics, the federal government will no longer collect data about the gender identity of people who experience violent crime or sexual misconduct.
Ethan Corey | May 5, 2025
USAToday | News Who gets to write America’s history? Activists prepare to battle Trump administration.
Tubman has been the subject of renewed public interest in recent weeks, since the Trump administration briefly removed information about the abolitionist from the National Park Service’s website. The Tubman picture and quote were restored after a public uproar, but the move raised alarms amidst other instances of Black and Native American figures being temporarily removed from federal websites. Meeta Anand, senior director of Census and Data Equity at The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, sees the federal changes as an attempt to control the story of America. “It represents a very deliberate effort to erase certain communities and the contributions communities have made,” she said.
Deborah Barfield Berry | May 5, 2025
Market Place | News How the BLS and its data could be affected by a proposed Trump rule
The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would make it much easier to fire federal workers. The rule would affect an estimated 50,000 federal employees. There are concerns it could touch staff at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which produces data that other government agencies and private companies rely on. The Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the monthly jobs report, the consumer price index, the producer price index — economists’ bread and butter.
Nancy Marshall-Genzer | May 2, 2025
States
Florida
NBC Miami | News Record number of residents left Miami-Dade but international migration peaked: Census Bureau
In March, the census released new data on the growth of major metro areas in the US. The info about Miami-Dade County brought about some interesting trends. About 67,000 people left Miami-Dade between 2023 and 2024, to go to live to other place in Florida or the United States. The amount of people that left Miami-Dade was unprecedented in the last 20 years, but the same was true for international migration. “Migration is largely driving the transfer for the county, more specifically net international migration which is having a lot of influence on the growth in the county,” said Kristie Wilder, a demographer in the Census Bureau Population Estimates Division.
Sophia Hernandez | May 4, 2025
Louisiana
The New York Times | News Pope Leo XIV’s Creole Roots Tell a Story of New Orleans
One day in June 1900, a census taker visited the New Orleans home of Joseph and Louise Martinez, Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents. They lived on North Prieur Street, just north of the French Quarter, a neighborhood considered the cradle of Louisiana’s Creole people of color. Ten years later, the census came knocking again. The family had grown — there were six daughters now. Other things changed, too: Mr. Martinez’s place of birth was listed this time as Santo Domingo, capital of the Dominican Republic. And the family’s race is recorded as “W,” for white. That simple switch, from “B” to “W,” suggests a complex, and very American, story.
Rick Rojas and Richard Fausset | May 9, 2025
North Carolina
New Bern Chamber | News City Of New Bern Challenges Census Data…& Wins
After a successful challenge of the U.S. Census Bureau, population estimates are now more accurate for the city limits of New Bern. The City petitioned census estimates for a three-year period from 2021-2023 through the bureau’s Population Estimates Challenge Program. Recently, staff received a letter stating the City’s challenge was successful and that population numbers would be adjusted to reflect recent increases.
Colleen Roberts | May 8, 2025
Blog Posts and Reports
Law Professor Blogs Network | Blog Gender and the Law Blog: Identity and Procedural Subordination in SCOTUS’ LGBTQ Religious Exemption Cases
In Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of the conservative Christian claimants, holding that they must be excused from complying with validly enacted provisions prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity (“SOGI”) under the First Amendment’s Free Exercise or Free Speech clause. Reactions to these cases from pro-LGBTQ scholars, commentators, and advocacy organizations have varied. Harsh criticism of the Court’s legal reasoning has issued from many legal scholars and commentators. Others have sounded the alarm about the likely harmful consequences of these decisions in the future, not only for LGBTQ people but for members of other marginalized communities. Still others, including myself, have situated these cases within the larger context of the emerging (and quickly strengthening) white Christian nationalism movement.
Tracy Thomas | May 8, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Census Bureau Releases Demographic Characteristics of Nonemployer Business Owners
Women owned 42.7% (12.7 million) of the nation’s 29.8 million nonemployer businesses (businesses without paid employees) and had $411.6 billion in receipts in 2022, according to the new Nonemployer Statistics by Demographics (NES-D) series released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. Veteran-owned firms made up about 4.6% (1.4 million) of nonemployer businesses, with $67.7 billion in receipts. There were a total of 29.8 million nonemployer businesses with $1.7 trillion in receipts in 2022. This release also includes business owners’ urban and rural classification, receipt size of firm, and legal form of organization (e.g., sole proprietorships and partnerships).
Jewel Jordan | May 8, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release — May 8, 2025
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data products from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS), a survey that measures business conditions and projections on an ongoing basis. The BTOS includes data for multiunit/multilocation businesses. BTOS will continue to collect data complementary to key items found on other economic surveys, such as revenues, employees, hours, and inventories.
Julie Iriondo | May 8, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release Census Bureau to Embargo Vintage 2024 City/Town Population Estimates and National, State and County Housing Unit Estimates
The U.S. Census Bureau will offer a two-day embargo period for qualified media to view the Vintage 2024 population estimates for local governmental units, including incorporated places, minor civil divisions and consolidated cities, and national, state and county housing unit estimates. Members of the media can visit the Census Bureau’s embargo site to register for embargo access. Embargoed information may not be published, broadcast, posted online, distributed via wire or distribution services, or shared with members who do not have embargo access until data are publicly released Thursday, May 15, at 12:01 a.m. ET.
Angelica Vasquez | May 7, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Publication Birth Cohort Geographic Mobility in the United States: 2005–2023
A population’s composition and distribution are directly affected by geographic mobility, sometimes referred to as migration. Geographic mobility is the movement of people from one place to another. Rates of geographic mobility vary by key demographic, socioeconomic, and temporal factors. Importantly, changes in geographic mobility do not happen uniformly across all population groups.
Justin V. Palrino | May 6, 2025
May 5, 2025 Census Coalition Clips
National
New York Times | News Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health
The Trump administration has scrapped more than $800 million worth of research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people, abandoning studies of cancers and viruses that tend to affect members of sexual minority groups and setting back efforts to defeat a resurgence of sexually transmitted infections, according to an analysis of federal data by The New York Times.
Benjamin Mueller | May 4, 2025
The Intelligencer | News Trump’s Federal Government Cuts Are Just Getting Started
In 1974, in reaction to various power grabs by the Nixon administration, a Democratic-controlled Congress enacted the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, and the simple process of yore started to change. This evolution has culminated in the incredibly complex and fragmented system we have today, which is giving the second Trump administration and its budget guru and OMB director Russell Vought an incredible array of opportunities to reshape the federal government profoundly via wave after wave of funding decisions. We’re seeing this play out in Washington every day.
Ed Kilgore | May 3, 2025’
Center on Budget and Policy and Priorities | News Trump Administration’s Mass Layoffs of Federal Workers Are Illegal | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Since shortly after the inauguration, the Trump Administration has made it a central goal to sharply reduce the number of federal workers, with little regard to the impact on the functioning of basic government services. This effort began with an attempt to encourage voluntary resignations through the so-called “fork in the road” initiative and continued with the indiscriminate termination of probationary employees. It has now proceeded to large-scale layoffs through “reductions in force” (RIFs). The Administration’s RIFs to date have been characterized by chaos and miscommunication, and concerns have been raised as to whether they follow the legally required process.
Sam Berger and Jacob Leibenluft | May 2, 2025
Politico | News Trump asks Supreme Court to let DOGE access sensitive Social Security data
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing sensitive personal information about millions of Americans. Solicitor General John Sauer argued in an emergency appeal that DOGE has a legitimate need to access the data in order to advise the White House and federal agencies on updating technology and eliminating waste and fraud.
Hassan Ali Kanu | May 2, 2025
MSNBC | News Real mission of DOGE seen in new insights on federal data and privacy
Elon Musk’s DOGE has done such a poor job at its state mission that many people are looking for what their real purpose has been. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin talks with Rachel Maddow about the data gathering and consolidation that DOGE has done through its access to federal databases, and what that likely means about their real intentions.
Julia Angwin, Rachel Maddow | May 1, 2025
The New York Times | News Census Updates: Survey Shows Which Cities Gained and Lost Population
The government released data from the 2020 census showing large increases in the populations of people who identify as Hispanic, Asian and more than one race. No large city grew faster than Phoenix. New York City adds 629,000 people, defying predictions of its decline. The growth along the corridor between San Antonio and Austin is ‘kind of mind-blowing.’ Diversity rises in Georgia, with whites making up only half the state. Boston grew swiftly over the decade, as its white population waned. While Democrats eye urban gains, Republicans will rely on drawing favorable districts. A rise in Hispanic and Asian population fuels U.S. growth, census reports.
Americans kept migrating to cities, leaving rural areas depopulated. A fight over political redistricting looms, with control of Congress potentially hanging in the balance. Some fear the pandemic and political turmoil may have affected the count.
Updated May 1, 2025
Daily Herald | News No one should age alone: What are some options?
The U.S. Census Bureau says that in 2023, about 28% of people 65 and older were living by themselves, or about 16 million individuals, about two-thirds of them women. The reasons are pretty well understood: Families have fewer children these days and are more mobile — meaning families don’t necessarily stay in the same geographic area as they once did. The Census Bureau also says that, whether by choice or circumstance, many older adults do not have children. In 2018, of the 92.2 million adults ages 55 and older, 15.2 million have no biological children.
Teri (Dreher) Frykenberg | April 28, 205
States
Florida
NBC Miami | News Record number of residents left Miami-Dade but international migration peaked: Census Bureau
In March, the census released new data on the growth of major metro areas in the US. The info about Miami-Dade County brought about some interesting trends. About 67,000 people left Miami-Dade between 2023 and 2024, to go to live to other place in Florida or the United States. That’s the case of 27 year old Ian Ondek, who moved to to South Florida as he enrolled in the University of Miami to study Architecture. After seven years, he found out “It was great, (but) it was just so expensive.” And eventually it became too much.
Sophia Hernandez | May 4, 2025
Georgia
GBPI | News GBPI Responds to President Trump’s Proposed Budget
Today President Trump released his Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget, proposing $163 billion in cuts to non-defense discretionary spending. This includes all budget areas that Congress is required to authorize annually but does not include mandatory spending already obligated for programs such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Trump’s proposal represents a cut of approximately 23 percent from current levels and includes sharp reductions for federal programs related to education, health and labor.
Staci Fox | May 2, 205
Michigan
Michigan Advance | News Every Kid Counts: Why the Fight for a Fair 2030 Census Matters More Than Ever
The Census is the oldest continuous data collection effort run by the federal government, and is collected every 10 years, shaping the country’s data infrastructure for over two centuries. At its core, it is meant to be an official, complete count of the United States’ population. It may record details about people such as age, gender and living arrangements. But more than that, the census is critical to the well-being of children and the entire U.S. The census isn’t perfect, though. Unfortunately, children — especially young children, Black and Brown children, children experiencing homelessness, and children in low-income households — are most often routinely undercounted. This creates serious consequences for education, health care and other pivotal support programs.
Kelli Bowers | May 1, 2025
Blog Posts and Reports
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances
The U.S. Census Bureau released today the 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. The data files and summary tables provide new data on current spending per pupil for public elementary and secondary education (pre-K through 12th grade) in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The report provides figures on revenues, expenditures, debt and assets (cash and security holdings) for the nation’s public elementary and secondary school systems. The report, which is released annually, includes detailed statistics on spending, such as instruction, student transportation, salaries, and employee benefits at the national, state and school district levels.
Mitchell A. Friedmann | May 1, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Blog Household Pulse Survey: Measuring Emergent Social and Economic Matters Facing U.S. Households
In early October 2024, HPS content began transitioning into a longitudinal design, with data collected every other month. In January 2025, the Household Pulse Survey (HPS) officially relaunched as an integral part of the Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS). In the longitudinal design of HTOPS, the survey content alternates every other month between HPS-focused content, which address timely issues affecting U.S. households, and content submitted by internal Census partners and stakeholders, allowing for flexible, targeted exploration of emergent topics. The longitudinal design of HTOPS also helps ensure these vital data are produced in an efficient, less burdensome manner that enhances their richness for timely data. Additionally, the longitudinal design benefits HPS data by allowing direct measurement of change over a much longer period of time in critical elements like spending, inflation, and other social and economic indicators of well-being.
U.S. Census Bureau | April 30, 2025
U.S. Census Bureau | Press Release 2024 Presidential Election Voting and Registration Tables Now Available
In the 2024 presidential election, 73.6% (or 174 million people) of the citizen voting-age population was registered to vote and 65.3% (or 154 million people) voted according to new voting and registration tables released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. These data come from the 2024 Current Population Survey (CPS) Voting and Registration Supplement for the November 2024 presidential election, which surveyed the civilian noninstitutionalized population in the United States.
Public Information Office | April 30, 2025
