WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is committed to using raw census numbers for political redistricting, but may allow adjusted numbers to be used to allocate federal funds among the states, House ...

Dealing a setback to the Clinton administration’s efforts to significantly change the way the 2000 census will be conducted, the Supreme Court on Monday said a controversial method of counting the ...

A plan to modernize the U.S. Census that many experts say would vastly improve the count of America’s millions was ruled illegal Monday by a federal court panel in Washington. Census Bureau officials ...

Try dropping the words "statistical sampling" while in conversation with a Republican politician and watch the sizzle. Why does such a nerdy blending of adjective and noun inflame GOP lawmakers like ...

Credit U.S. Rep. Christopher Shays of Stamford with integrity and a little courage in bucking his party’s leadership to make the next U.S. Census as accurate as possible. GOP congressional leaders ...

The Obama administration’s recent actions regarding the census are outrageous and unprecedented. Commanding the census director to report directly to the White House is a naked political power grab ...

It is rather laughable that the Aug. 27 editorial on the upcoming census had the headline, “Accurate census must be upheld,” and then go on to support statistical sampling to achieve this aim. Have we ...

Trying to count every one of the 260 million-plus people who reside in the United States is a literally impossible task. No matter how much time, money and effort the Census Bureau expends, it can ...

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit argue the 2020 Census wrongly overcounted the population in a partisan way: “When the federal ...

Census 2000 failed to count 509,012 Californians, more than half of them in the Southland, according to a set of much-debated, statistically revised figures released Friday by the U.S. Census Bureau.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich has filed his much anticipated lawsuit seeking to prevent the Clinton administration from using a new and contentious method for estimating the country’s population in the ...

President Obama will today announce that he has chosen potentially-polarizing University of Michigan professor Robert M. Groves to become census director, according to the Associated Press. Groves, a ...