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April 28, 2025 Census Coalition Clips
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The Atlantic | News American Panopticon
In March, President Trump issued an executive order aiming to eliminate the data silos that keep everything separate. Historically, much of the data collected by the government had been heavily compartmentalized and secured; even for those legally authorized to see sensitive data, requesting access for use by another government agency is typically a painful process that requires justifying what you need, why you need it, and proving that it is used for those purposes only. Not so under Trump.
Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel | April 27, 2025
NPR | Noticias Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it’s destabilized by Trump’s job cuts
Working for the U.S. government also came with the kinds of benefits and job stability that have attracted many Black federal employees for generations. Now, the Trump administration’s slashing of government jobs, ongoing hiring freeze and attack on diversity, equity and inclusion programs are upending what has been a longstanding path into the middle class for many Black workers. The exact numbers and demographics of the workers affected by the ongoing federal job cuts are hard to come by. But the government’s latest public data from September 2024 shows Black people make up 18.5% of the federal civilian workforce, while their share of the general U.S. population, according to the 2020 census, stands at 14.8%. At some agencies, including the Departments of Education, Treasury and Housing and Urban Development, Black employees make up about a third or more of the staff.
Marisa Peñaloza, Hansi Lo Wang | April 27, 2025
NPR | Noticias A Whistleblower Takes on DOGE : Up First from NPR
NPR’s cybersecurity correspondent Jenna McLaughlin recently broke a story about a whistleblower inside the federal government who says DOGE representatives appear to have taken sensitive data, then covered their tracks. Daniel Berulis works for the National Labor Relations Board and he has shared evidence that DOGE engineers disabled security protocols, exported reams of sensitive data and used a “hacker’s toolkit” to hide their activities. And he thinks his agency is not alone. Today on The Sunday Story, what this possible breach could mean for the private data of millions of Americans.
Kim Nederveen Pieterse and Andrew Mambo | April 27, 2025
Proskauer | News EEOC Seeks Elimination of Voluntary Reporting Non-Binary Data in EEO-1 | Government Contractor Compliance & Regulatory Update
On April 15, 2025, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) submitted a “non-substantive” Information Collection Request (“ICR”) to the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) for approval ahead of its 2024 data collection. Among the requested changes, the EEOC seeks OMB approval for the elimination of the option allowing employers to voluntarily report on employees who self-identify as “non-binary.” The EEOC states the request is made to comply with Executive Order 14168, “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.”
Guy Brenner & Mallory Knudsen | April 25, 2025
On January 10, 2025, the Center for American Progress submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Census Bureau in response to multiple proposed changes to the race/ethnicity code list for the American Community Survey and for the 2030 census. The comments provided an overview of how CAP uses census data, including regional data and categories, within its research. The comments also provided insights into and examples of how removing regional categories from the code list and tabulated products would affect the work done at CAP when using race/ethnicity data. Finally, the comment letter supports the ability to create regional categories using disaggregated data.
Mariam Rashid & Sara Estep | April 25, 2025
EE.UU. hoy | Noticias USA TODAY won a lawsuit to get hidden data on prison deaths. Here’s what it shows.
More than 21,000 people died in local jails and state prisons in four years, according to records the government has hidden from public view since 2021. The U.S. Department of Justice released the inmate death records to USA TODAY on April 23 after a years-long court battle. The records include the names, dates, locations and circumstances of deaths in custody. It comes from the prison systems in all 50 states and about 2,800 local jails across the country between Oct. 1, 2015 and the end of 2019.
Gina Barton & Austin Fast | April 25, 2025
Physician’s Weekly | News Primary Care Practices Show Gaps in LGBTQ+-Affirming Care
In a study published in JAMA Network Open, more than 75% of US primary care practices surveyed collected data on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI); however, only a third provided competency training for clinicians on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer (LGBTQ+) people. The cross-sectional study analyzed data for 1,245 primary care practices from the National Survey of Healthcare Organizations and Systems II, which took place between June 2022 and February 2023. Researchers were interested in primary care practice engagement in LGBTQ+ affirming care activities.
Ellesse-Roselee L. Akré, PhD | April 24, 2025
CEPR | News Trump Is Following An Authoritarian Playbook By Undermining Federal Data
One of the defining features of Donald Trump’s second term is an aggressive drive to control the narrative, in part by burying inconvenient evidence. A key example is his regime’s multi-pronged assault on federal data infrastructure and independent institutions that safeguard public knowledge. In just its first hundred days, Trump’s regime has laid siege to federal data agencies, eliminated or drastically overhauled key reports, ceased collecting crucial information, and pressured scientists and statisticians to alter findings that conflict with the Trumpian political narrative. These attacks on government statistics pose a threat to democratic accountability, one that will unmoor demands for change by making it harder for the public to keep track of how much the goalposts have moved and how much damage is currently occurring.
Hayley Brown | April 22, 2025
Daily Yonder | News Migration to Rural America Resulted in Population Growth Last Year, Census Shows
Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties grew by 134,000 residents between 2023 and 2024, reversing a decade-long trend of population decline that happened between 2010 and 2020. Since 2020, in-migration has been the primary force behind rural population gain.
Sarah Melotte | April 21, 2025
CAP | News 4 Protections Congress Must Include in Federal Privacy Law
In a submission to the House Energy and Commerce Committee privacy working group’s request for information (RFI), the Center for American Progress urges lawmakers to reject industry-backed efforts to weaken privacy rights and instead advance meaningful protections Americans have demanded for decades.
Nicole Alvarez | April 21, 2025
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Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. | Presione soltar Business Trends and Outlook Survey Data Release, April 24, 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. To address this, eleven WFH questions were developed for the BTOS, covering the share and frequency of WFH, challenges, management policies, and business impact. These data are now available.
Julie Iriondo | April 24, 2025
Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. | Presione soltar New Economic Census Establishment and Firm Size Statistics Available
The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Establishment and Firm Size Statistics data tables from the 2022 Economic Census. The release includes seven tables providing data for the nation by revenue and employment size categories of establishments and firms for most sectors, including statistics on single unit and multiunit firms, concentration of the largest firms, legal form of organization, number of establishments, and number of firms at the two- to six-digit 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) levels. Data vary by sector and include sales, value of shipments, or revenue; annual payroll; number of employees; operating expenses; and inventories.
Jewel Jordan | April 23, 3035
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The Daily Yonder | News Migration to Rural America Resulted in Population Growth Last Year, Census Shows
Thousands of people moved to rural America last year, causing the fourth year of continual growth in rural areas, according to a Daily Yonder analysis of 2024 Census estimates. Nonmetropolitan, or rural, counties grew by 134,000 residents between 2023 and 2024, reversing a decade-long trend of population decline that happened between 2010 and 2020. Since 2020, in-migration has been the primary force behind rural population gain. If it wasn’t for people moving to rural America, nonmetro counties would have lost more than half a million residents over the past four years. That’s because deaths have been outnumbering births in rural places, a phenomenon demographers refer to as natural decrease. (Natural increase, on the other hand, occurs when births outnumber deaths).
Sarah Melotte | April 21, 2025
NPR | Noticias Brain drain at Census Bureau has employees warning about the country’s statistics
As federal agencies brace for the Trump administration’s next round of slashing the U.S. government, recent staff departures are already raising concerns about whether the Census Bureau can continue producing reliable statistics for the country. Like most other agencies, the bureau is under pressure from Trump officials to further shrink their workforce while keeping in place a hiring freeze. According to emails shared with NPR, agency staffers are facing a Thursday deadline for applications for early retirement and voluntary separation offers that may be followed by mass firings. But current and former employees warn that the bureau — which for years has been dealing with the restrictions of short-term funding and staffing challenges — is under unique strain.
Hansi Lo Wang | April 20, 2025
NYT | News The Face of Catholicism in the United States Has Changed. Here’s How.
A lively Mass with mariachi music in San Antonio. A monthly potluck for Filipino Catholics in New York City. Parishes in Las Vegas so crowded that some attendees must stand. These are some of the faces of the Catholic Church in the United States this Easter weekend. For decades, the share of American Catholics declined in the face of broader trends in secularization. But those numbers have stabilized in recent years, according to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, buoyed by growing immigrant communities across the West and the South and by broader societal changes that are transforming Catholic identity.
Kate Selig | April 20, 2025
Pro Publica | News Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
More children ages 1 to 4 die of drowning than any other cause of death. Nearly a quarter of adults received mental health treatment in 2023, an increase of 3.4 million from the prior year. The number of migrants from Mexico and northern Central American countries stopped by the U.S. Border Patrol was surpassed in 2022 by the number of migrants from other nations.
We know these things because the federal government collects, organizes and shares the data behind them. Every year, year after year, workers in agencies that many of us have never heard of have been amassing the statistics that undergird decision-making at all levels of government and inform the judgments of business leaders, school administrators and medical providers nationwide. The survival of that data is now in doubt, as a result of the Department of Government Efficiency’s comprehensive assault on the federal bureaucracy.
Alec MacGillis | April 18, 2025
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Ideastram Public Radio | News More Ohioans say they are multiracial. The why might surprise you
As debates over diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the nation’s colleges and universities continue and companies pull back from DEI programs, Ohio is becoming more diverse and Ohioans are more likely to say they come from mixed-race family backgrounds, U.S. Census figures show. Census counts show a significant and growing number of people — in the U.S. and Ohio — identifying as multiracial, a category that increased significantly between 2010 and 2020. The number of Ohioans who selected “two or more races” on Census forms grew from 237,765 in 2010 to 681,372 in 2020 — an increase of 186.57%. Almost 7% of Ohioans said they were of two or more races, according to 1-year American Community Survey estimates released in 2023. Nationally, multiracial populations increased even more, by 276%, from about 9 million people in 2010 to 33.8 million people in 2020.
Gabriel Kramer | April 21, 2025
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Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. | Presione soltar Data Collection Begins for Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey
The U.S. Census Bureau today announced that data collection for the experimental Household Trends and Outlook Pulse Survey (HTOPS) is expanding to almost 30,000 households. This expanded sample size will allow for data to be released at a subnational level. Launched in January, HTOPS is a successor to the Household Pulse Survey (HPS). HTOPS will continue the strong tradition of the HPS by providing rapid insights into national events that have socioeconomic impacts on U.S. households.
Veronica Vaquer | April 15, 2025
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Instituto Brookings | Noticias Recent immigration brought a population rebound to America’s major metro areas, new census data show
Just a few months into office, the Trump administration has put in place a restrictive immigration policy while pursuing aggressive deportations. These anti-immigrant actions come just as new Census Bureau data show that the rise of immigration over the past few years, including both legal and undocumented immigrants, bolstered population growth across the nation and, in particular, large metro areas. The early 2020s hit those areas’ populations particularly hard, in large part due to COVID-19: more deaths, fewer births, domestic out-migration, and reduced immigration from abroad. While most of these components are now turning around, the new census data show that the recent rise in immigration is the main reason big urban area populations are now recovering.
William H. Frey | April 10, 2025
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The Minnesota Star Tribune | News Minnesota is surveying LGBTQ residents for the first time in 30 years
A Minnesota state agency is currently surveying LGBTQ residents to learn more about the experiences and challenges facing the community. It has been 30 years since Minnesota undertook a similarly ambitious effort. The survey is the first major initiative of the Council on LGBTQIA2S+ Minnesotans, which was formed in 2023 and operational as of last May. The council will use the data to inform policy recommendations, funding and community programming for LGBTQ Minnesotans. About 460,000 Minnesota adults identify as LGBTQ, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2024 Household Pulse Survey.
Zoë Jackson | April 14, 2025
Nevada
Reno Gazette Journal | News Reno-Sparks climbs US population rankings, Las Vegas holds steady: See latest Census data
The Reno metropolitan statistical area grew by 8,124 residents between July 1, 2023, and July 1, 2024, according to the latest estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. The latest estimates now put the area’s population at 575,100 residents. That figure pushed the Reno area past the metro areas of Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, and Portland, Maine, to be the 101st-largest metro area in the United States. About one out of every six Nevadans lives in the Reno metro area, which is comprised of Washoe and Storey counties. The region represents about 17.6% of the state’s population.
Brett McGinness | April 10, 2025
Texas
Todo Texano | Noticias The Rise of Multiracial Texans: What Data Tell Us
About 5.7 million people in Texas identify as two or more races — 19.2% of the state’s population. This is a seemingly large increase from the roughly 488,000 Texans who were classified as multiracial in 2010 — just 2% of the population. However, studies find that changes in design, data processing, and coding of race and ethnicity questions in 2020 impacted this data. Regardless, the percentage of Texans identifying as multiracial grew from 7% in 2020 to 19% in 2023. It was not until the year 2000 that people could select more than one race category on the census form. More racial and ethnic categories have been added over time, though additional improvements are still necessary for more equitable data collection.
Kaitlan Wong | April 1, 2025
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Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. | Presione soltar Census Bureau Releases New U.S. Population Estimates by Age and Sex
The U.S. Census Bureau today released a downloadable file containing estimates of the nation’s resident population by sex and single year of age as of July 1, 2024, which is available at www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest.html. In the coming months, the Census Bureau will release additional population estimates for cities and towns as well as population estimates by age, sex, race and Hispanic origin for the nation, states, counties, and metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas.
Angelica Vasquez | April 10, 2025
Oficina del Censo de EE.UU. | Blog What Is the Nonemployer Marine Economy?
From sea to shining sea, with the Great Lakes in between, U.S. coastal areas provide cargo handling, port operations, fishing, shipbuilding/repairs, navigational services and vacation accommodations. All are integral to the U.S. marine economy. The U.S. Census Bureau earlier this year released the 2022 Nonemployer Statistics (NES) Marine Economy Table providing data on nonemployer businesses (those without paid employees) including self-employed fishers, boat captains, engineers, innkeepers and the like. The table provides estimates of the number of U.S. nonemployer marine businesses and the receipts they generated in the nation’s 30 states with a coastline, which accounted for $10.7 billion of U.S. nonemployer receipts in 2022.
Travis Shoemaker | April 9, 2025
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WAPO | News Fed work helped build Black wealth in this suburb. Now families worry.
In this Washington suburb, the Taylors’ story is not unique. Until recently, Prince George’s ranked as the wealthiest majority-Black county in the United States, fueled by middle-class workers who gravitated to the federal sector for its promise of stability and benefits — and the chance to boost their families’ economic bottom line. The federal government is the largest employer in Maryland, and more than 65,000 federal workers live in Prince George’s County, making up 17.4 percent of the county’s total workforce, according to an analysis of 2023 American Community Survey data by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments. Their median salary of $110,400 far outpaces workers in both the county government and the private sector.
Michael Brice-Saddler and Lateshia Beachum | April 7, 2025
AP | Noticias A Century-Long Battle Over the Census is Brewing
Amid the chaotic first months of the second Trump Administration, too little attention has been paid to recent debates over seemingly obscure 2030 census-related legislation that aims to subvert how the U.S. House of Representatives (and thereby the Electoral College) is reapportioned. Last term, the Republican House majority adopted the so-called “Equal Representation” bill of 2024 with little fanfare. It aimed to require the inclusion of a citizenship question on the 2030 census. The measure would have also commanded the U.S. Census Bureau and the Commerce Department to employ that data to exclude noncitizens from the population when reallocating states’ seats to the House of Representatives. Though the 2024 bill died in the last Congress, recent hearings indicate that GOP leaders could introduce similar legislation in this Congress.
Brendan A Shanahan | April 2, 2025
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SF Gate| News Hawaii’s population breaks longtime trend
After steadily declining since 2020, Hawaii’s population shifted in a positive direction, breaking the longtime trend, according to the United States Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 population estimates. The estimates program provides a look at how the population is changing between decennial census years. It’s not a big increase. From July 2023 to July 2024, the state’s population increased from 1.441 million to 1.446 million — an addition of 4,759 people. But when compared with the last U.S. census in 2020, which had 1.455 million, it is still down by 9,106 people. Higher cost of living and lack of affordable housing are two reasons why residents leave the islands. California is the top state they are choosing, followed by Washington and Texas.
Christine Hitt | April 6, 2025
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NY Amsterdam| News Black and Brown New Yorkers should care about the 2030 Census count
The upcoming 2030 Census count will be a pivotal point in deciding congressional seats for the state, as well as funding and resources for neighborhoods of color. New York State and City electeds are hoping people will start paying attention now. The New York State Black Legislative Task Force is serious about raising awareness about the Census in their communities. They’re also lobbying Gov. Kathy Hochul to support Bill A05864, which would establish a statewide office for the Census. “Black communities in New York have been undercounted for far too long. The census is supposed to be about fairness and representation. Still, year after year, communities of color are the ones left out of the numbers and left behind when it comes to funding and political power,” said Assemblymember Michaelle C. Solages, the bill sponsor.
Ariama C Long | April 3, 2025
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Nature | News Enabling disaggregation of Asian American subgroups: a dataset of Wikidata names for disparity estimation
Decades of research and advocacy have underscored the imperative of surfacing – as the first step towards mitigating – racial disparities, including among subgroups historically bundled into aggregated categories. Recent U.S. federal regulations have required increasingly disaggregated race reporting, but major implementation barriers mean that, in practice, reported race data continues to remain inadequate. While imputation methods have enabled disparity assessments in many research and policy settings lacking reported race, the leading name algorithms cannot recover disaggregated categories, given the same lack of disaggregated data from administrative sources to inform algorithm design. Leveraging a Wikidata sample of over 300,000 individuals from six Asian countries, we extract frequencies of 25,876 first names and 18,703 surnames which can be used as proxies for U.S. name-race distributions among six major Asian subgroups: Asian Indian, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese.
Qiwei Lin et al. | April 5, 2025
