Basic Facts About the 2010 Census: n All U.S. residents must be counted – people of all races and ethnic groups, both citizens and non-citizens. n Census questionnaires will be delivered or mailed to ...

Steve Kahlfeldt wants his students to grasp how the census impacts them right now, not in some far-off future. For example, the data determines how much funding Title I students receive for hot lunch ...

Updated on March 6 at 10:10 a.m. ET Making sense of the census can be difficult. In the U.S., the national head count comes around once every 10 years. That's enough time for memories to fade and for ...

Nearly 30,000 census takers are gathering data that had a direct impact on government policies and planning, but for workers ...

If you think the census is just the government's way of getting up in your business, you're way off. Census data, required by the U.S. Constitution every 10 years, is actually used to allocate funding ...

U.S. Census Bureau data newly released Thursday paints America as a more diverse and urban country today than it was 10 years ago. About 86% of the country’s population lives in metro areas, the ...