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Today, your state will find out its new share of votes in the Electoral College and Congress when the first set of 2020 census results are out around 3 p.m.

BREAKING: President Biden is making a historic pick for Census Bureau director with Latinx statistician Robert Santos, who, if confirmed by the Senate, would be the bureau’s first permanent director

SCOOP: The Trump administration has added its 4th political appointee in 3 months to the Census Bureau — Earl “Trey” Mayfield, newly appointed counselor to the bureau’s directorhttps://www.npr.org/2020/09/30/916526935/census-bureau-

NEW: Emails show career officials at the Census Bureau tried to warn the Trump admin that cutting the #2020Census schedule short would lead to "fatal data quality flaws that are

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh tells DOJ attorney Aleks Sverdlov at court conference: "I was very disappointed and surprised to see the government just say, 'We're not complying with the

I know the #2020Census doesn’t get as much attention as the election, but did you know the results of this “boring” and “unsexy” count are expected to determine how much

NEW: Last-minute changes to the #2020Census the Trump admin directed the Census Bureau to make not only end counting early, but also cut short critical processes to ensure an accurate

NEW: A federal judge in NY may issue a ruling as early as late August that could block ongoing Trump admin efforts to carry out the president's memo calling for

BREAKING: Census Bureau confirms all #2020Census counting efforts will be cut a month short, risking a severe undercount of people of color. Collecting responses online, over the phone & by

SCOOP: @NPR has now confirmed 4 states (Iowa, South Carolina, South Dakota, Nebraska) have agreed to share their state driver's license & state ID info to help Trump admin efforts

SCOOP: @NPR has obtained a copy of an agreement showing that South Dakota is sharing driver's license and state ID records with the Census Bureau to help the Trump administration

Census Bureau says it can no longer deliver #2020Census results by the end of this year & needs Congress to change legal deadlines. "If we don't get our act together,