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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Census has released the following information in honor of Older Americans Month, May 2011. A meeting with the National Council of Senior Citizens resulted in President John F. Kennedy designating ...

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 ...