The Latest Breaking News from the Census Bureau

Learn about the U.S. Census Bureau's updated immigrant counting methodology and its impact on population estimates.

The U.S. Census Bureau is changing how it counts international migration in its annual population estimates

The recent immigration surge, which started in 2021 and ended around 2023, is the largest in U.S. history, surpassing those in the 1800s and 1900s.

Not long ago, Polk County’s biggest draw was citrus

Legal analysis released by Legal Defense Fund highlights specific harms rightwing plan poses to Black communities

The first widening of the gender wage in 20 years is the latest indication that many women have paid a price for leaving the workforce at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, either because they lost their jobs or because they quit because of caretaking responsibilities

Former President Barack Obama signed into law the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act

Tim Walz is entrusted with outreach to Native Americans, a group that has tilted toward GOP in some states

KB Home stock fell premarket after its Q3 earnings report. August new home sales data is due Wednesday morning. Mortgage rates fall.

The figure rose to 14.3% in 2023, according to figures from the Census Bureau

The number of Americans living in poverty, according to the nation’s official definition, fell slightly to about 36.8 million in 2023, the Census Bureau announced on Sept. 10, 2024. The data released also indicated that the poverty rate declined a little. However, an alternative way to measure poverty ticked up,…