If you're sitting at home during the COVID-19 outbreak wishing there was something you could do for your community, demographers say there is. File your census form. "The census is the most democratic ...

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EVEN before the U.S. Census Bureau began to mail its surveys to the nation's homes this spring, director Robert Groves says he never expected to match the 72 percent response rate attained in the 2000 ...

Chances are you’ve already received a letter from the government by now stressing the importance of the 2010 Census form. But if you and your significant other fall into a particular category, this ...

The results of the 2010 census, the first since Hurricane Katrina, will be vital for the future of metro New Orleans. That's why it's worrisome that some parishes in our region are lagging behind in ...

“I am black. I did not appreciate the black, the African-American and Negro,” the caller to C-SPAN’s Washington Journal told U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Groves last month, “…The word Negro ...