But the decennial census involves much more than raw numbers.
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The printing of the decennial population survey is already underway.
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The decennial census is supremely important, to put it mildly.
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Citizenship questions have also been included on prior decennial censuses.
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The decennial Census long asked it up to and including 28503.
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In 2018, Secretary Ross formally proposed adding it to the decennial survey.
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The (first crack at the) semi-decennial farm bill failed on Friday.
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The decennial line-drawing process has always been a somewhat political endeavor.
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"The decennial census required by the Constitution tallies total population," he wrote.
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Two-thirds of the population is easily counted in the decennial census.
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The decennial census questionnaire is the constitutional vehicle for collecting that information.
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It's a disorienting decade we live in, this decennial seems to suggest.
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We know that because prior decennial census data has told us so.
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The citizenship question has not been on a decennial census since 1950.
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A citizenship question has not appeared on the decennial census form since 1950.
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The pressure reflects the economic importance of the decennial count of America's inhabitants.
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Two other judges have ruled against adding the question to the decennial survey.
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It turns out the Census Bureau produces a promo video every decennial year.
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Districting happens every 10 years, as soon as the decennial census data is released.
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The citizenship question was dropped from the decennial count after the 1950 census. 5.
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The decennial census has not asked all respondents whether they were citizens since 1960.
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States redraw their legislative maps every ten years to keep up with the decennial census.
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It has been almost 2023 years since the decennial census asked a question about citizenship.
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Government employment jumped by 34,000 jobs, boosted by temporary hiring for the 2020 decennial census.
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But it hasn't asked all households the citizenship question on a decennial census since 1950.
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There is precedent: Article 1 of the Constitution requires a decennial census for reapportionment purposes.
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For one thing, it offers multiple estimates at once (one-year, two-year, and five-year averages); for another thing, because it keeps generating new data throughout the decade, it doesn't mesh with the decennial redistricting process as well as the decennial census does.
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Federal law sets constraints on when the decennial count of the country's population will be taken.
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But a notable aspect of the decennial anniversary is that the clouds may, finally, be lifting.
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Government payrolls rose by 19,000 jobs in January, with some hiring for the 2020 Decennial census.
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Usually, the Census Bureau sees its budget increase in years leading up to each decennial count.
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The decennial census is a constitutionally required count of every person living in the United States.
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Under Article 1, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution, the American government conducts a decennial census.
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The decennial census influences political representation in Congress and federal funding for an assortment of programs.
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Just last week, Congress started to worry that the 2020 decennial census would go over budget.
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The decennial count, managed at the United States Census Bureau, aims to fulfill that constitutional requirement.
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Seats in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College are tied to the decennial census.
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The former occurs every ten years as states undergo the decennial rituals of reapportionment and redistricting.
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Between 1820 and 1950, almost every decennial census asked a question on citizenship in some form.
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While most Americans think of the Census as decennial head count, it much more than that.
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The administration's decision appeared to end a yearlong battle over the country's all-important decennial head count.
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"The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question," he said.
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It will be the first decennial digital population count in history, marking a change from earlier exercises.
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Spending on the Census Bureau typically rises sharply in the final years before the decennial is conducted.
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Republicans controlled the decennial congressional line-drawing process in lots and lots of states in 2010/2011.
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Many have debated whether adding a citizenship question to the decennial census is good or bad policy.
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Instead, the decennial census focuses on questions like age and race and number of occupants in a household.
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"We have limited empirical evidence about the impact the question might have in the decennial environment," Velkoff said.
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When completing the paperwork for the decennial headcount, include everyone living in a given household on this day.
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The decennial census also collects data on-campus college students and Americans in other kinds of living situations.
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But states must redraw their legislative maps every 10 years, shortly after the completion of the decennial census.
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"The residence criteria are used to determine where people are counted during each decennial census," the agency says.
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"The residence criteria are used to determine where people are counted during each decennial census," the agency said.
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The fight over the inclusion of a citizenship question in the decennial count appeared over as of Tuesday night.
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"[T]he decision has been made", they wrote, "to print the 20183 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question".
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The efforts highlight the challenges posed by the internet age to the decennial gathering of data on America's population.
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The decennial census count is used to divide up congressional seats and apportion millions of dollars of federal funding.
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The efforts highlight the challenges posed by the internet age to the decennial gathering of data on Americas population.
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Tom Wolf (D) created a redistricting reform commission to study ways the state can update its decennial mapping process.
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There's no hyperbole in saying that participation in the decennial census is one of our most important civic duties.
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"Our partner organizations are nonprofits that work with people who are historically undercounted in every decennial census," Huang explained.
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The director of the U.S. Census Bureau has resigned as the bureau ramps up work for its decennial tally.
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" Ross said Tuesday that "the Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question.
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Since statehood in 1850, the Golden State gained congressional seats after every decennial census due to massive population gains.
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But the mandate of the decennial census is one thing alone: to count every single person in this country.
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The government uses the decennial census to determine how billions of dollars in federal funds are allocated across the country.
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In most cases, state government's re-draw legislative district lines immediately following the completion of the United States' decennial census.
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To this day, the question is still asked on the American Community Survey, an annual supplement to the decennial census.
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The decennial redistricting process has been a combative political sport since the early days of the republic, when Massachusetts Gov.
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The Trump administration's decision to ask people their citizenship status in the 2020 Decennial Census is sparking controversy and litigation.
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The 2628 Decennial Census was the last one to ask citizenship status, because citizenship information has not been considered essential.
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The decennial census generally included a citizenship inquiry for more than 100 years through 1950, according to the Commerce Department.
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"The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question," he said in a statement.
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The decennial census is supposed to count everyone who lives in the United States, whether or not they are citizens.
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The decennial count is used to apportion seats in the House of Representatives and set the boundaries of congressional districts.
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California simply has too much to lose for us to allow the Trump Administration to botch this important decennial obligation.
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California simply has too much to lose for us to allow the Trump administration to botch this important decennial obligation.
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They will be counted along with the rest of us in the grand decennial enumeration that the Constitution's framers decreed.
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They will be counted along with the rest of us in the grand decennial enumeration that the Constitution's framers decreed.
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IN 2010 Republicans won majorities in both houses of Pennsylvania's legislature, which gave them control of the state's decennial redistricting process.
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The complex seven-year legal battle focuses on how states use race to redraw their legislative maps after the decennial census.
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"We are confident that we will be able to continue operating our nuclear reactors after the fourth decennial overhaul," Miniere said.
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The measure, dubbed Better Boundaries, would create an independent commission to draw district lines every 28500 years, following the decennial Census.
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According to Becerra, the U.S. Constitution requires an actual count of the population in the decennial census, regardless of citizenship status.
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Dowell Myers: The decennial census is supposed to be a 100-percent count of all the people in the United States.
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The Commerce Department says that between 1820 and 1950, almost every decennial census asked a question on citizenship in some form.
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Decennial census records are confidential for 72 years to protect each respondent's privacy, and the census does not obtain disability information.
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Following each decennial census, Congress is required to pass a law that establishes the apportionment process for the next 10 years.
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The center's analysis is based on data from the US Census Bureau's American Community Survey and the 2000 US decennial census.
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Accordingly, states must redraw their districts every 10 years to account for the new population data provided by the decennial census.
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The decennial census -- which counts the US population every ten years and is required by the Constitution -- was last administered in 2010.
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The two political gerrymandering cases are being looked to as potentially precedent-setting for the coming decennial redraw of the nation's lines.
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Michael Thieme, the bureau's assistant director for decennial programs, will handle Kalluri's previous duties while the bureau searches for a permanent replacement.
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On Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said "the Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question."
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The distribution among states of the 435 congressional seats in the House of Representatives is based on the official decennial census count.
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Nine of those members lost because they were running in districts substantially different from their old seats after the decennial redistricting cycle.
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The big picture: This is the first time a citizenship question has been included in the decennial census since 1950, per NPR.
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The results of the decennial redistricting and reapportionment process have historically shaped the makeup of both state legislatures and the U.S. House.
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The hiring impact of the Census Bureau&aposs decennial count can be seen in the Bureau of Labor Statistics&apos employment figures.
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The administration said late Tuesday it would include a question on the decennial survey that would ask whether respondents are American citizens.
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That data isn't as comprehensive as the decennial census (and it's not an "actual enumeration," as the Constitution requires in apportioning Congress).
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Beyond its impact on elections, the decennial census directs the destination of hundreds of billions of dollars of federal funds each year.
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The House was likely hoping to get clarity on why the Trump administration, specifically Gore, wants this data from the decennial census.
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A change to the questionnaire for the decennial census in 2020 is expected to increase the share of districts whose voters prefer Republicans.
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It would make no allowance for inflation, for population growth, or for special needs such as wars, natural disasters, or the decennial Census.
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The last stop on this year's circuit is Skulptur Projekte, the German decennial for public art led by Kasper König for four decades.
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While the company has been criticized for a permissive policy on political content, it drew the line on interfering with the decennial survey.
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The Census Bureau already collects citizenship information through separate surveys, but the administration asserts that inclusion on the decennial census will improve accuracy.
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The decennial count determines how billions of dollars in federal funds are distributed and the number of representatives each state gets in Congress.
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House Democrats are investigating Trump's efforts to add a citizenship question to the decennial census that critics said would discriminate against racial minorities.
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In both cases, Census Bureau employees follow up with mailings and in-person visits -- the most expensive part of the decennial population count.
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Brunell, for instance, would oversee the agency's advertising budget, which is essential to persuading groups like undocumented immigrants to respond to the decennial.
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Gerrymandering—the practice of setting electoral lines to optimise the chances of one party over another—is a decennial sin of every majority party.
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After all, both parties have shown a willingness over the last several decades to push their partisan advantage in the decennial line-drawing process.
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In 2000, the decennial census "long form" survey, which was distributed to one in six people in the U.S., included a question on citizenship.
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The most important is what is called the decennial enumeration: a head count, every 10 years, of each and every individual in the country.
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Atri Kalluri, who ran the Decennial IT Division, moved on April 14 to a new role managing data security, Census spokesman Michael Cook said.
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The challengers argue that the citizenship question will scare people in immigrant communities away from responding, skewing the accuracy of the decennial population count.
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The state is expected to gain two or even three new House seats in the decennial reapportionment process, according to the demographer Kimball Brace.
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The Census Act states that data from the decennial census survey cannot be shared by the Commerce Department, the agency that oversees the survey.
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The Trump administration announced in March that it would include a question on the decennial survey that would ask whether respondents are American citizens.
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Three federal judges have ruled against the question, but the Supreme Court's conservative majority appears poised to allow its inclusion on the decennial census.
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Not only does the Constitution require a decennial census, but the federal Census Act is extremely clear on when that census must take place.
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Plus, the politicians elected this fall will be in place in 2021, when states redraw their congressional maps following the 2020 decennial U.S. census.
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This gives you an idea of the moving target the government faces when Americans participate in the nation's 24th decennial census on April 1.
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The decennial count, overseen by the Commerce Department, is used to determine electoral boundaries as well as a host of government programs and benefits.
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Defaulting on our children's academic futures would be as reprehensible as the politically-motivated efforts to dwarf their representation in the 2020 decennial census.
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For their city-based analysis, Opportunity Insights focused on the commuting zones that had the largest black populations as of the 2000 decennial census.
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For a while, the expansion formula was managed in such a way that states seldom lost seats from one decennial apportionment to the next.
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Ross had said the question - which has not appeared on the decennial census since 1950 - was necessary to enforce federal laws protecting eligible voters.
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This isn't unfamiliar news to members of Congress; funding for the decennial census traditionally increases significantly as we get closer to the census year.
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"Citizenship and other demographic questions have long been a part of the decennial census despite their potential effect on response rates," the DOJ brief said.
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Following the 2000 decennial census, the "long form" sample was replaced by the American Community Survey ("ACS"), which has included a citizenship question since 2005.
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To ensure the accuracy of the constitutionally required count, the decennial enumeration is designed to be minimally intrusive: 10 questions taking 10 minutes or less.
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The key argument against adding a citizenship question to the census was that it would intimidate people, especially Latinos, from responding to the decennial count.
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One of the U.S. government's most important tasks is conducting the decennial Census in which it attempts to count every person in the United States.
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Control of state legislative chambers matters in the larger fight for the House: In 34 states, legislatures draw congressional district lines after the decennial Census.
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The U.S. holds federal elections every two years, so those maps are used at least five times before another decennial census starts the process anew.
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Decennial census data is used to redraw House districts, which determine how many seats each state receives and how many electoral votes they can cast.
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The Commerce Department, which oversees the census, had said that printing must begin on July 1 for the decennial population survey to occur on schedule.
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A shifting political battleground is common at the end of a decade, years after the decennial census reapportions districts and states redraw their political boundaries.
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The committee is still seeking testimony from Ross over the Commerce Department's intention to add a citizenship question to the decennial population count in 2020.
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A group of states including New York and immigrant rights organizations sued to prevent the citizenship question from being included in the decennial population count.
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Those are the three questions pertaining to citizenship in the American Community Survey, but there is no citizenship status question on the decennial census form.
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The census, a decennial exercise mandated in the U.S. constitution, is the basis for redrawing state legislative districts and reapportioning the U.S. House of Representatives.
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They were determined not to lose it anytime soon, so they turned the decennial redistricting process, which began in 14, into a clandestine partisan operation.
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After every decennial census, each state is apportioned the number of seats that corresponds to its share of the aggregate population of all 50 states.
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Cook declined to comment on the audit but said the bureau is poised to conduct the most automated, modern, and dynamic decennial census in history.
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The typical increase in funding in the years before the decennial count has not materialised, forcing the agency to cancel two of its three test runs.
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Instead, the Census Bureau included citizenship status on sample surveys of U.S. households taken to augment census and labor market data between the decennial census, i.e.
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They chose those endpoints because congressional districts are redrawn after every decennial census and they wanted the longest recent period for which the boundaries were unchanged.
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As soon as the decennial census data is available, for example, we revise our ranking of the top media markets in the United States, by population.
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" It said Mr. Hofeller's 2015 study had "played no role in the department's December 2017 request to reinstate a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census.
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The case comes from Wisconsin, where Republicans won control of the state government in 2010, just in time to draw new maps following the decennial census.
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The Supreme Court said in June that the administration did not give an adequate reason for wanting to include the question in the decennial population count.
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According to the past three decennial censuses, Southeast Asian refugees have maintained the highest poverty and welfare dependency rates of any ethnic group in the country.
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The impact on Congress and the Electoral College is one of several reasons why politicians at the federal and local levels closely watch the decennial census.
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Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary — who once worked as a census enumerator himself — has previously argued that adding questions to the decennial would reduce response rates.
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Critics have argued that including the question in the 2020 decennial census will discourage undocumented immigrants from filling out the questionnaire, leading to an inaccurate count.
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The legal fight over adding a citizenship question to the decennial population survey comes before the US Supreme Court less than a year before the count begins.
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It's a city of 11,198 inhabitants, as per the last U.S. decennial census, located on the USA—Mexico border across the Rio Grande from Mexican city Reynosa.
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The success of the decennial Census depends on public cooperation, and the Census Bureau has strived to maintain public trust so that individuals will share accurate information.
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The Supreme Court announced last month that it will review a district court ruling that bars the administration from adding the question to the decennial population count.
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Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) savaged Facebook for being too slow to take down a deceptive Trump campaign ad that posed as materials for the decennial census. Sen.
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But for decades the decennial count has started early in Alaska, where large portions of the state aren't connected by roads and can have spotty mail service.
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Democrats and civil rights advocates claimed the query would discourage responses to the decennial questionnaire from new immigrants and minorities and affect the balance of power nationwide.
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Various citizenship questions have been integral parts of the federally administered mail-and-door-knocking decennial census in 19290, 21870, 214, 22020 to 21940, and 22000 to 43.
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"In the 2010 decennial census, the Census Bureau was able to match 88.6 percent of the population with what the Bureau considers credible administrative record data," Ross wrote.
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Adding the citizenship question to the decennial enumeration at this moment represents at best extreme recklessness, and at worst the weaponization of statistics, upending a basic constitutional command.
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This is the first major ruling out of the multiple lawsuits filed across the country challenging Ross's decision to add the controversial citizenship question to the decennial census.
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House Oversight Democrats have also sought more of his records related to the Census Bureau's controversial decision to add a citizenship question to the decennial census in 2020.
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Judges have repeatedly ruled against the Trump administration on the question since officials first announced last year that it would be included in the next decennial population survey.
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Time is quickly running out so the federal government and the private sector must take these six actions now to mitigate the multiple risks to the decennial census.
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The groups are asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to permanently block the administration from adding the question to the decennial census.
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The decennial survey is mandated under the Constitution, and the data is used for a variety of purposes like drawing congressional districts and allocating federal funds to states.
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The Supreme Court last week blocked the inclusion of the question, saying administration officials had given a "contrived" rationale for including the query in the decennial population survey.
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In this edition of the German decennial for public art, one wonders whether Skulptur Projekte has conquered the Westphalian establishment, or the establishment has co-opted Skulptur Projekte.
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But in January, the decennial census was added to the office's list of high-risk operations, indicating concerns that it might not be able to complete its mission.
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But party strategists on both sides say the stakes are highest in the races for governorships, because governors will have substantial sway when the decennial redistricting process begins.
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The bureau released its national and state population estimates on Monday, the final yearly snapshot of the country's changing demographics before the decennial census is conducted in 2020.
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On the specifics, Trump's argument lacks facts, and on his larger point he's flatly wrong: the decennial census did not ask about number of bathrooms, bedrooms, and so on.
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" A Justice Department spokesperson said in May that the 2015 "study played no role in Department's December 2017 request to reinstate a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census.
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The stakes of the ruling are enormous: population data from the decennial census are used to determine the number of representatives—and therefore electoral votes—allocated to each state.
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The stakes were high: population data from the decennial census direct the flow of billions of federal dollars and set the number of congressional representatives allocated to each state.
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Like her colleagues on the left, Sotomayor sharply challenged the Trump administration's proposal adding the citizenship query to the decennial effort intended to count everyone irrespective of legal status.
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The decennial population count is used to apportion members of the US House of Representatives, draw state political districts and allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in government funding.
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This past week the American Civil Liberties Union filed yet another desperate lawsuit challenging the secretary of Commerce's decision to reinstate a citizenship question on the 21625 decennial census.
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Those losses presaged the Tea Party-fueled Republican sweep in 2010, a year that saw Republicans seize statehouses across the country to take control of the decennial redistricting process.
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The decennial census has not asked all respondents whether they were citizens since 173, although much smaller Census Bureau surveys of the population have continued to include citizenship questions.
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" Ross, a key figure in the controversy, had said in a statement on Tuesday, "The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question.
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In Michigan, voters are likely to have the opportunity to change the way the state draws its maps the next time the decennial census and reapportionment process takes place.
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The push to include the question has also set off concerns about the way such data might be used in the next decennial redistricting cycle, which begins in 2021.
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"I have determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census is necessary to provide complete and accurate data in response to the DOJ request," he wrote.
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Part of the reason for the rosy forecast: Around this time every ten years, the federal government brings on hundreds of thousands of temporary workers to conduct the decennial Census.
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DOJ's brief to the Supreme Court, with its emphasis on the Commerce Department's congressionally delegated authority over the decennial census, is carefully pitched to its audience of Supreme Court justices.
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"Secretary Ross clearly explained why he chose to reinstate the citizenship question on the 2020 Decennial Census in his March 26, 2018 decision memorandum," Commerce said in its email statement.
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One decision failed to stop the drive toward increasingly partisan gerrymanders, and the other temporarily blocked the Trump Administration's attempt to leverage the decennial United States Census for partisan advantage.
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The current decennial effort to amend the FOIA, while a welcome demonstration of congressional bipartisanship to promote Executive Branch transparency, is a missed opportunity to fix many longstanding, fundamental problems.
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But the decennial census is the big one, and as former Census Bureau heads warned in a January letter, even small tweaks to the questionnaire can have potentially huge consequences.
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Pending legal challenges from the states or an unlikely intervention from the Republican-controlled Congress, the citizenship question would appear in the decennial census for the first time since 1950.
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That skepticism could have serious implications for the accuracy of the decennial count, according to demographers, activists, local governments and corporations who say it will prompt millions of residents reut.
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He's trying to use a mandate of the Constitution, the decennial census, to shore up power in the Electoral College and Congress for the aging white men of Trump's base.
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Letter called the decennial census of the "utmost importance" to the House and insisted that no question should be added that could lead the head count to be less accurate.
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Required by law, the decennial census of every United States resident has occurred every decade since 1790 and serves as the basis for apportioning seats in the House of Representatives.
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The decennial Census is a politically crucial count of the US population that underpins congressional redistricting as well as the disbursement of federal funding for a wide array of programs.
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As commerce secretary, Ross also oversees the Census Bureau; he's already been in the middle of a scandal over his attempts to place a citizenship question on the decennial count.
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The U.S. Constitution requires a decennial census to determine each states representation in Congress and to guide the allocation of as much as $0003 trillion a year in federal funds.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' decision to add the question sparked a fight over the decennial count, which is used to determine representation in Congress and which local governments receive federal funds.
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The bitterly contested issue got new life Wednesday, when Trump reversed course and publicly said he intended to continue fighting to add a question about citizenship to the decennial population count.
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In 2018, Mr Trump's ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries earned the justices' blessing; last month they thwarted his quest to add a citizenship question to the decennial census.
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Amid brewing anti-immigration sentiments, critics said adding the question could produce an undercount because undocumented immigrants would refuse to participate in the decennial survey out of fear of being deported.
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But even if the action were reviewable, Francisco argued, "it simply cannot be 'arbitrary'" or "irrational" to reinstate to the decennial census a question whose pedigree dates back nearly 200 years.
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Second, the court decided that Mr Ross did not act arbitrarily or capriciously in adding the question to the decennial census rather than rely on administrative records to gather citizenship data.
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But even if the action was reviewable, Francisco argued "it simply cannot be 'arbitrary'" or "irrational" to reinstate to the decennial census a question whose pedigree dates back nearly 200 years.
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The efforts ahead of the decennial reapportionment and redistricting process that begins next year, and that will have a major effect on the apportionment of electoral college votes and congressional districts.
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The justices decided to skip over a regional appeals court and review a district court ruling that bars the Trump administration from adding the controversial question to the decennial population count.
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Raising the stakes even more, 2020 marks a once-in-a-generation confluence of a presidential election cycle in which control of the decennial redistricting process is also on the line.
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Four of those states, Florida, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia, are among the top ten states with the highest proportion of elderly (65+) residents according to the last decennial census.
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The bureau typically requires — and receives — a huge bump in funding as the decennial approaches, since it must hire tens of thousands of people and open dozens of field offices nationwide.
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Since 1790, the decennial and the long-form census, along with other products produced by the agency, have been a primary source of rich and objective data for use by researchers.
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The decision is a win for civil rights groups who argued that the addition of the question onto the decennial survey, which is used to apportion congressional districts, would disenfranchise minority groups.
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Prior decennial census surveys of the entire United States population consistently asked citizenship questions up until 1950, and Census Bureau surveys of sample populations continue to ask citizenship questions to this day.
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WILBUR ROSS, the secretary of commerce, has offered a number of different, unconvincing reasons for his decision to include a citizenship question on the decennial census that will be conducted in 2020.
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The draft executive order would direct the Census Bureau to include questions about immigration status in the decennial census, an idea that Republican members of Congress previously proposed before the 2010 Census.
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In 22000, Congress passed legislation establishing the "22010-Year Rule," which prohibits the release of personally identifiable information about an individual until 22020 years after it was collected for the decennial census.
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Democrats have made states like Michigan a top priority, both because of the role it plays in the electoral college and in the decennial redistricting process, which the next governor will oversee.
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This pattern of population growth and reciprocal House growth continued until 1920, when the House failed to apportion after the decennial census because of hostilities between urban and rural states over representation.
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Francisco said the administration would have a better collection of citizenship data by asking residents about their status on the decennial survey, rather than relying on available records and other statistical models.
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Federal elections are the pillar of our national democracy, and the decennial census is the foundation for those elections and assuring that every person is counted accurately and has fair political representation.
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Yet, a recent White House draft Executive Order suggests it wants to rebrand the census (or American Communities Survey which complements the decennial census) to be a tool to control American workers.
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On the blocking and tackling of politics, information on citizenship collected by the decennial census can be used by states to redistrict electoral seats on the basis of citizenship or voter eligibility.
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Even though experts selected Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece as the greatest film of all time in Sight & Sound magazine's decennial poll, there is considerable controversy over the best way to see it.
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The decennial census form does not ask about citizenship or immigration status, but a separate survey that's part of the Census Bureau, called the American Community Survey, does include questions on citizenship.
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In order to ensure high response rates to its decennial census, the Census Bureau widely publicizes the fact that the public is required by law to complete and return the Census surveys.
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"As attorney general, I did not — nor did my predecessors — request the addition of a citizenship question to the decennial census to enforce the [Voting Rights Act]," Holder said in a statement.
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Tony Evers (D) is taking a new weapon into the fight for control of the decennial redistricting process in a state where Democrats say Republicans have consistently built themselves a gerrymandered advantage.
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But on Tuesday afternoon, a Justice Department lawyer emailed lawyers who had sued over the question to say that a "decision has been made" to print the decennial questionnaire without the citizenship question.
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The Trump administration on Tuesday said it will print the 2020 census without a question about citizenship, bringing to an apparent close a contentious legal battle over that aspect of the decennial survey.
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Critics of the move, now under review by the U.S. Supreme Court, believe including the question will scare immigrants and Latinos into abstaining from the decennial survey, disproportionately under-counting Democratic-leaning states.
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"I determined that the importance of that goal outweighed any potential decrease in self-response rates that may result from people violating their legal duty to respond to the decennial census," he said.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is sounding alarms about its ability to hire the hundreds of thousands of temporary employees to conduct its decennial count in a job market that is near full employment.
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But the critics are correct that not since 1950 has the government asked everyone in the United States to declare their citizenship status in order to participate in the constitutionally mandated decennial count.
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"There are two related threats to the coming decennial census: budget mismanagement and a leadership vacuum," write Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University and Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute, in Bloomberg View.
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The 28500 election will be the most impactful election since 6900 — the last time Americans elected not only a president but also governors and legislators responsible for the decennial redrawing of legislative maps.
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The comments by American Enterprise Institute (AEI) economist Nicholas Eberstadt may add a new layer to a fierce political battle over what questions the government should include on its decennial survey of U.S. residents.
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"For the decennial census, the Census Bureau will need a large and diverse workforce to follow up by phone or in person with households that do not respond to the questionnaire," Robert Bernstein wrote.
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Liberal members of the court, however, repeatedly pointed to studies that say inclusion of the citizenship question would cause fewer people to participate in the decennial survey, resulting in an inaccurate overall population count.
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Ross announced in March that he was granting a request from the Justice Department to reinstate the citizenship question on the decennial population count to help the agency better enforce the Voting Rights Act.
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The proposed change goes against the longstanding mission of the census "to serve as the leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy" and would politicize the critical decennial population count.
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Accurate decennial census data determines distribution of over $22019 billion of federal funding including for Medicaid, Medicare Part B, food stamps, highways and construction, Pell Grants, National School Lunch and other critical programs. 2.
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According to court papers, the requirement ended job prospects for about 700,000 of the 3.8 million people who applied for temporary work to complete the 2010 decennial count, and disproportionately affected blacks and Hispanics.
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Since Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced in March that the constitutionally provisioned decennial census would include a citizenship question for the first time in decades, questions have arisen about how that decision was made.
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Why it matters: As the suits to remove the question make their way through courts in New York, Maryland and California, they could complicate preparation for the United States' constitutionally-mandated nationwide decennial count.
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While this year's decennial head count relies more heavily on collecting responses by phone, mail or online, it still needs an army of people to go knock on doors and interact with the public.
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Even now, both Kansas and Hawaii do not count university students or families at military installations unless they already are state residents — even though those people are not counted elsewhere in the decennial census.
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While it is a bit late in the process to add questions to the decennial census, the citizenship question is hardly some mysterious white whale that nobody at the Census Bureau has ever seen before.
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And Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross issued a statement saying, "The Census Bureau has started the process of printing the decennial questionnaires without the question" even though he said he disagreed with the Supreme Court ruling.
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In fact, while questions about citizenship have been asked of some subsets of Americans in previous, but not all, decennial population counts, the questionnaire has never -- in American history -- collected that information for every person.
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The decennial count of United States residents, which the Constitution mandates to include both citizens and noncitizens, is used to apportion House seats among the states and to redraw both local and state political boundaries.
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The Commerce Department, in charge of running the decennial Census, has said that including a citizenship question will help the federal government maintain a more accurate register of the country's residents, regardless of citizenship status.
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The "Mad Money" host turned to the daily chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average plotted against an indicator called the decennial pattern, which tracks the stock market over a relatively cyclical 10-year pattern.
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Critics have called the citizenship question a Republican ploy to scare immigrants into not taking part in the decennial population count and engineer an undercount in Democratic-leaning areas with high immigrant and Latino populations.
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The Supreme Court found that administration officials had given a "contrived" rationale for including the query in the decennial population survey, but the court left open the possibility the administration could offer a plausible rationale.
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Over the centuries, lawmakers have become ever more sophisticated in redrawing legislative maps after each decennial census, carving out oddly shaped districts for state legislatures and the House of Representatives that favor their parties' candidates.
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"The financial media should prepare for a lot more gas-lighting on the employment data next year when the Census Bureau is going to hire greater than 500,000 to conduct the decennial census," Brusuelas said.
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But Trump's political strategy to attack the US Census and add a citizenship question many think will drive down response rates, means those people could effectively disappear from the population after next year's decennial census.
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Early on, he tells a story (and sings a song) about how his father shaves once every 10 years, and how those decennial shaves were the only time Sandler can recall seeing his father look vulnerable.
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Study How Congressional Districts Change Over Time Students should know that congressional districts are redrawn at regular intervals as populations change within states and around the country, based on the results of the decennial U.S. census.
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" In the administration's brief, Mr. Francisco complains that "until now no court has seen fit to police the contents of the decennial census questionnaire by even entertaining an arbitrary-and-capricious challenge, let alone upholding one.
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The latest numbers, released Monday, represent the final estimates from the government before next year's decennial Census, which will determine how many House seats and Electoral College votes each state will have for the next decade.
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"The Census Bureau must finalize the census forms by the end of June 2019 to print them on time for the 2020 decennial census," wrote US Solicitor General Noel Francisco in a court brief filed in January.
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That could have consequences for political power and government money across the US. The decennial count is used to apportion seats in the US House and allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal and state funds.
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Unlike in the court's other blockbuster decision Thursday on partisan gerrymandering, a majority of the justices also found that courts could be involved in reviewing decisions by federal officials when it came to managing the decennial census.
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Douglas Letter, general counsel for the House of Representatives, argued that the accuracy of the count — more than any other information that the Census Bureau collected in the decennial census — was of "utmost importance" to the House.
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"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," DOJ lawyer Kate Bailey wrote.
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In a "Dear Colleague" letter sent to House Democrats on Monday, Pelosi said the caucus's top priorities would be improving detention center conditions and preventing the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the decennial census.
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The orders came in two cases that have been consolidated into one trial brought by 17 blue-leaning states and a coalition of immigrant rights groups regarding the addition of a citizenship question on the decennial census.
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On the other hand, the timing of putting the question back into the decennial Census now, amid fraught immigration politics and ICE crackdowns, has raised widespread concern that it is part of a larger anti-immigration agenda.
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"Those reasons include the Justice Department's view that citizenship data from the decennial census would be helpful to its enforcement duties under the Voting Rights Act," Noel J. Francisco, the solicitor general, wrote in an emergency application.
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Washington (CNN)As coronavirus shuts down large parts of the US economy and millions of Americans limit social interaction, the Census Bureau is preparing to send thousands of workers into communities to assist in the decennial headcount.
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For most of his 19803-year career, Mr. Hofeller was little known outside the small band of government clerks, political strategists and data buffs who surfaced, cicada-like, after every decennial census to draw new political maps.
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WASHINGTON — Facebook said on Thursday that it had removed misleading ads run by President Trump's re-election campaign about the 2020 census, in a stand against disinformation ahead of the decennial population count that begins next week.
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It's part of the left's war on the right MORE is leading an outside group aimed at winning back legislative seats to try to influence the decennial redistricting process, and former President Obama has signaled his support.
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In fact, they do not want to be deported or to run afoul of the government in ways that might bring negative attention to them — ignoring a Census Bureau survey or the decennial census would do that.
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Adding the question, critics say, would result in minorities being undercounted by scaring off even legal residents or naturalized citizens from completing the decennial questionnaire, which is also used to determine funding for an array of government programs.
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If Democrats are able to win control of the state House for the first time since 2000, they would win a seat at the table for the decennial reapportionment and redistricting process that begins with next year's census.
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Democrats like O'Malley recognize the importance, too, both for the coming presidential election and for the decennial redistricting process, which begins after the 2020 census — during the terms of many governors who are up for reelection this year.
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The Justice Department had requested the change in December, arguing that asking participants about their citizenship status in the decennial census would help enforce Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which aims to prevent voting rights violations.
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In the newest chapter, Latino and African-American advocates have asked a three-judge federal panel in San Antonio to require Texas to submit for pre-approval any statewide redistricting plans enacted for the next decennial redistricting cycle.
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At least 15 states are banding together to sue the Trump administration to block the inclusion of a controversial question about citizenship status on the 2020 census, a query that has not appeared on the decennial survey since 1950.
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From 1820 to 1950, with a brief interruption in 1840, each decennial census included a citizenship question, and from 1970 to 2000, the question appeared on the "long-form" questionnaire, a survey sent to one in six American households.
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The fear is that the question could result in minorities being undercounted by scaring off even legal residents or naturalized citizens from completing the decennial questionnaire, which is also used to determine funding for an array of government programs.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers for the U.S. government on Tuesday wrapped up their defense of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross' decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census, saying he has broad latitude to run the decennial survey.
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At present, that's our primary source of official information about how many citizens live in the US. So the Trump administration is correct that the only decennial census that didn't include any questions about citizenship was the 2010 census.
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The question has not been on the full decennial census since the 1950s, but does appear on the yearly American Community Survey administered by the Census Bureau to give a fuller picture of life in America and the population.
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Ross' announcement described citizenship data as necessary for the Justice Department to enforce the Voting Rights Act, and Republicans point to examples about citizenship appearing on past decennial and other census surveys as evidence it is a normal query.
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The move caps more than a week of conflicting messages from the White House about how it would proceed on the issue after the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from including the citizenship question on the decennial form.
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The President is pushing for the addition of a question about citizenship status to the decennial population survey, while the Supreme Court ruled last week the government had not adequately justified adding the question and blocked it from appearing for now.
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Delaying the census could also put the administration at risk for breaking the law, as Title 13 of the US Code mandates that the decennial census of population take place every 10 years, 'as of the first day of April.
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American politics simply operates on a very complicated series of partially overlapping time cycles — two-year House cycles, four-year presidential terms, six-year Senate terms, decennial redistricting processes — that played out in an unfavorable way for Obama-era Democrats.
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Thanks to back-to-back decennial redistricting efforts that have shored up incumbents of both parties by packing partisans into like districts, the only threat for the vast majority of members of Congress is in a primary, not a general election.
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The president's efforts to put the question on the census have been rebuffed by court rulings after the Supreme Court ruled last month that the Trump administration did not give an adequate reason for adding the inquiry to the decennial survey.
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The Commerce Department's announcement last March that it intended to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census sparked backlash, with Democrats and other critics arguing that the government was seeking to not count immigrants in the decennial population tally.
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But Francisco argued in his request to the Supreme Court that the question is not new, insisting that questions seeking citizenship or birthplace information were part of every decennial census from 1820 to 1950, except 1840, and from 85033 through 2000.
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But a group of Virginia Democrats did just that earlier this month, when they voted in favor of an amendment to the State Constitution stripping themselves of the power to redraw legislative district maps in 2021, after the decennial census.
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In June, he and three other conservative justices dissented when the court blocked Trump from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 U.S. census that critics said was intended to deter immigrants from taking part in the decennial population count.
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The data collected in the decennial Census is used to determine important representation for states and localities like congressional districts and allocation of federal resources, and thus an accurate count is essential to those areas for the next 10 years.
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The formal process that leads to the decennial reapportionment of congressional seats begins later this month in a tiny village on the Bering Sea, where census takers will begin counting the 500 or so residents who call Toksook Bay home.
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The analysis, using both short- and long-term population projections by redistricting expert Kimball Brace at Election Data Services, shows seven states are likely to pick up seats in the next round of constitutionally mandated reapportionment, which follows the decennial Census.
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In a December document first reported by ProPublica, the Department of Justice argued that inquiring about citizenship status in the decennial census was critical to enforcing Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, which protects against racial discrimination in voting.
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"Attorneys from the Department of Commerce are currently examining the justification for the data needed by the Department of Justice," Albert E. Fontenot Jr., the associate director for decennial census programs at the Census Bureau, said in a briefing last month.
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Conservative justices signaled during arguments in the closely watched case a willingness to overturn a lower court ruling that blocked the question and appeared untroubled by the administration's stated justification for using the citizenship question in the decennial population count.
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Title 13 of the US Code, section 141, is extremely clear on this point: (a) The Secretary [of Commerce] shall, in the year 1980 and every 10 years thereafter, take a decennial census of population as of the first day of April of such year, which date shall be known as the "decennial census date"... If Trump wants the lawyers to get the citizenship question reinstated, they should probably get cracking in coming up with the alternative rationale the Supreme Court asked for — not trying to find a way around an unusually clear provision of federal law.
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President Donald Trump threw the issue into fresh confusion last week when he announced that he would continue his push to add a question to the decennial survey about citizenship status despite a Supreme Court ruling in late June blocking the move.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he is exploring a delay in the 2020 census for an unspecified amount of time after the Supreme Court blocked, for now, his push to add a citizenship question to the decennial headcount.
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Details: Seeborg wrote that adding the question to the decennial census, which is used to apportion congressional seats, is "quite effective at depressing self-response rates among immigrants" and that it "poses a significant risk of distorting" congressional representation among the states.
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Last year it upheld his travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries, but in June rejected his bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, which opponents said would deter immigrants from participating in the decennial population count.
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Last year it upheld his travel ban on people from several Muslim-majority countries, but in June rejected his bid to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, which opponents said would deter immigrants from participating in the decennial population count.
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A coalition of ethnic based liberal organizations won a big court victory in last month when Judge Jesse Furman of the Southern District of New York ruled in their favor that a question on citizenship cannot be asked in the 28503 decennial census.
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Those who study the decennial undertaking say they are concerned that the Census Bureau does not have the funding it needs to operate a full and complete count, and they are concerned by several controversies that threaten to politicize a normally apolitical effort.
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Alito complained that while Census staffers said they could use other data to collect more accurate citizenship data than would be produced by asking the question on the decennial survey, those experts were vague about how much more accurate it would be.
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Civil-rights advocates and some former Justice Department lawyers have said that the Voting Rights Act has been enforced for decades with existing citizenship data, and that the demand for more was but a pretext for adding the question to the decennial census.
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Both major parties have long histories of redistricting in their own interest, but since 2010, the benefits have flowed overwhelmingly to Republicans, who swept into Congress and statehouses around the country just as the decennial census set off a new round of redistricting.
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Yet they all agreed that the 2019 review of the decennial U.N. political declaration and the plan of action on drugs would take the form of simple ministerial meeting at a subsidiary U.N. commission based in Vienna, the Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND).
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The administration has argued that adding a question requiring people participating in the decennial population tally to declare whether they are a citizen is needed to better enforce a voting rights law, a rationale that opponents called a pretext for a political motive.
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"The Departments of Justice and Commerce have now been asked to reevaluate all available options following the Supreme Court's decision and whether the Supreme Court's decision would allow for a new decision to include the citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census," Hunt said.
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Although Monday was the deadline by which the administration was supposed to have given the go-ahead to printing the census forms, for now the Trump administration seems to be recommitted to further gumming up the decennial count of who is in the United States.
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Trump administration officials have been considering the merits of citizens-only redistricting since 2017 - well before announcing their intention in March 2018 to add the citizenship question to the decennial survey, according to court documents filed as part of litigation over the citizenship question.
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Roberts last June again sided with the court's liberals as the court ruled 5-4 against the Trump administration's attempt to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census that critics called an attempt to deter immigrants from taking part in the decennial population count.
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The lawsuit, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, is an escalation of a monthslong dispute over the panel's efforts to investigate the Trump administration's effort to alter the decennial survey to ask 2020 respondents whether they are citizens.
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In June, Roberts joined the liberal justices and cast the deciding vote in a 5-4 ruling blocking Trump from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census that critics said was intended to deter immigrants from taking part in the decennial population count.
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Even at its smoothest, the decennial census is among the most sprawling and complicated exercises in American society, mandated by the Constitution to count every person in the nation, whether in homes, prisons or under freeway viaducts; whether citizens or undocumented immigrants in hiding.
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Trump cited the time it would take to go through more litigation, and said the administration would instead collect citizenship data from federal agencies — an option that the Census Bureau originally recommended to Ross before he decided to include the question as part of the decennial count.
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Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the court's 85033-4 decision last month that the administration's rationale for adding the question — enforcing the Voting Rights Act — was "contrived," and the justices stopped the question from appearing on the decennial survey unless a more valid reason was provided.
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"I am confident that after months of review and consideration, this administrative record proves that the return of the citizenship question to the Decennial Census is the right move that will allow our country to have the most complete and accurate census information available," he said.
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In a short speech I confessed to my friends that my marital separation had left me fearful of two things: What to do on this birthday (check) and finding a friend to drive me to my decennial colonoscopy (a not-so-intimate friend raised his hand).
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Civil rights groups Thursday blasted the Republican National Committee, claiming the group violated federal law and is trying to sow confusion after it mailed imitation census forms meant to mimic the real decennial to Montana voters to solicit money for President Donald Trump's re-election campaign.
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"The decennial census is mandated in the Constitution and its data are relied on for a myriad of important government decisions, including apportionment of Congressional seats among states, enforcement of voting rights laws, and allocation of federal funds," Ross wrote in a memo on March 26, 2018.
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A new team of Civil Division lawyers at the Department of Justice will take over handling 2020 census-related cases, a spokeswoman for the agency said on Sunday, a shake-up that came as President Donald Trump pushes to include a contentious citizenship question in the decennial population survey.
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The agency's chief scientist, John Abowd, made the comments in testimony in federal court in New York, where a group of U.S. states, cities and civil rights groups have sued the administration to remove the question, arguing it could dissuade non-citizens from participating in the decennial census.
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Even as much is yet to be determined about the upcoming decennial census, this much is plain: The ultimate resolution, just as it was for Obamacare in 2012 and likely will be again, will be controlled by Roberts, now age 64, and a legal rationale marked by twists and compromises.
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" Justice Department spokesman Kerri Kupec said, in a statement "The Supreme Court held that [Commerce] Secretary [Wilbur] Ross reasonably concluded that including the citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census would provide the most complete and accurate citizenship information, but it invalidated his decision to include that question on other grounds.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new team of Civil Division lawyers at the Department of Justice will take over handling 2020 census-related cases, a spokeswoman for the agency said on Sunday, a shake-up that came as President Donald Trump pushes to include a contentious citizenship question in the decennial population survey.
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The Bureau announced that it is planning to hire as many as 500,000 part-time and temporary census-takers to go out into America&aposs communities and see exactly how many people live there this spring and summer as part of the constitutionally mandated decennial count of the US population.
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"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 22019 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," Kate Bailey, an attorney with the Department of Justice's Federal Programs Branch, said in an email obtained by lawyer Daniel Jacobson.
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"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," Kate Bailey, an attorney with the Department of Justice's Federal Programs Branch, said in an email obtained by lawyer Daniel Jacobson.
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The push, the details of which have not been previously reported, follows warnings from data and cybersecurity experts dating back to 2016 that right-wing groups and foreign actors may borrow the "fake news" playbook from the last presidential election to dissuade immigrants from participating in the decennial count, the officials and sources told Reuters.
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In DOJ's account, U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Wilbur Ross, whose department, by statute, has virtually unfettered discretion over the decennial census of the U.S. population, was mulling the reinstitution of a citizenship question when he received a request from the Justice Department to provide citizenship data to support DOJ's enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.
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The push, the details of which have not been previously reported, follows warnings from data and cybersecurity experts dating back to 2016 that right-wing groups and foreign actors may borrow the fake news playbook from the last presidential election to dissuade immigrants from participating in the decennial count, the officials and sources told Reuters.
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"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," DOJ attorney Kate Bailey wrote in an email sent to groups challenging the question, a copy of which was obtained by The Hill.
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" Former census directors Robert Groves and Steven Murdock argued in the journal Science last year against adding untested questions such as the citizenship question late in the process: "Mistaking the decennial census as only an act of politics, solely useful for updating the distribution of political power, threatens the scientific basis of its credibility.
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"Secretary Ross recalls that Steve Bannon called Secretary Ross in the Spring of 2017 to ask Secretary Ross if he would be willing to speak to then-Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach about Secretary Kobach's ideas about a possible citizenship question on the decennial Census," Justice Department lawyers wrote in a court filing before the district court.
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"We can confirm that the decision has been made to print the 2020 Decennial Census questionnaire without a citizenship question, and that the printer has been instructed to begin the printing process," Kate Bailey, an attorney with the Department of Justice, wrote in an email that was sent to challengers of the citizenship question Tuesday and provided to CNBC.
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Yet that's exactly what appeared to happen on Tuesday, when the Census Bureau sent a report to Congress suggesting that the 2020 census will include sexual orientation and gender identity, only to later put out a correction noting that sexual orientation and gender identity will not be included in the decennial census or the supplemental American Community Surveys.
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Last week, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 90 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE announced that the Department of Commerce, which oversees the U.S. Census Bureau, would reinstate a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire.
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"After a thorough review of the legal, program, and policy considerations, as well as numerous discussions with Census Bureau leadership, members of Congress, and interested stakeholders, Secretary [Wilbur] Ross has determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data," Commerce said in a statement.
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Now, it is true, in decennial census data, that the share of Americans who live in the state where they were born is declining: While a roughly stable share of around 60 to 70 percent of Americans resided in their state of birth from 1850 to 1950, that share has since declined to under 60 percent.
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In a statement released Monday, the Commerce Department, which oversees the Census Bureau, said Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross had "determined that reinstatement of a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census questionnaire is necessary to provide complete and accurate census block level data," allowing the department to accurately measure the portion of the population eligible to vote.
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Newly submitted evidence in the Maryland court case includes a 2015 study written by Republican strategist Thomas Hofeller in which he concluded that asking census respondents whether they are U.S. citizens "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats" and "advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites" in redrawing electoral districts based on decennial census data.
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Albert E. Fontenot Jr., associate director for Decennial Programs of the US Census Bureau, said during a news phone briefing that the census is used to determine funding for hospitals, clinics, emergency preparedness, and school lunch programs — all of which are areas that have been affected by or have played a role in responding to the coronavirus.
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"Allowing the administration to demand citizenship information from every household as part of the decennial census for the first time in more than half a century would dramatically depress the count in areas with significant Latino and immigrant populations and would reposition political representation toward areas more likely to elect Republicans," Holder wrote in a Washington Post op-ed published Thursday.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE had initially said that he wanted to delay the decennial census as his administration continued to push for the question to be included in the 85033 survey.
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What you see FAR less of in the coverage is conversations about the 22014(!) governor races on the ballot -- and the gains that Democrats are positioned to make in large population states, gains with huge reverberations not just in the 22010 presidential race but also in the decennial nationwide redistricting process that will begin in earnest after the 22014 Census is competed.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossTrump administration delays penalty on Huawei for another 90 days WaPo calls Trump admin 'another threat' to endangered species Recession fears surge as stock markets plunge MORE approved the addition of the question in March, despite objections from Democrats and immigration advocates who have said it will discourage people from filling out the decennial questionnaire.
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To understand the intertwined patterns of racial change and partisan preference, CNN data analyst Ryan Struyk compared the racial composition of congressional districts in 2010 (using data from the 2010 decennial census that the Census Bureau has reconfigured to the congressional district lines first used in 2012) with the 2016 results of the census' annual American Community Survey (the most recent available).
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According to the plaintiffs who brought the New York challenge to the citizenship question, Mark Neuman, a key adviser to Mr. Ross on census issues, and John Gore, a Justice Department official who oversees voting rights enforcement, gave false or misleading testimony during the course of the litigation about why the Trump administration was so intent on including a citizenship query in the decennial count.
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Decennial audit studies conducted by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, as well as an investigation conducted on Long Island and published by Newsday in 2019 (in which black and white trained testers using comparable financial identities visited the same real estate offices) have uncovered overwhelming evidence of housing discrimination against blacks, decades after the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made the practice illegal.
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According to a transcript of the hearing before US District Judge George Hazel in Greenbelt, Maryland, which was not open to the public or press, Joseph "Jody" Hunt, who leads the Justice Department's Civil Division, said they had been tasked with figuring out if the Census Bureau could ask about citizenship in the decennial count, notwithstanding a recent US Supreme Court decision that prohibited it, at least for now.
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The judge overseeing the case scheduled a call with lawyers for the government and those suing to block the question from being added to the decennial questionnaire following confusion over a tweet sent by President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE earlier in the day.
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Ross's memo stated that he'd considered four options for obtaining citizenship data — to continue to ask about it in the American Community Survey, which goes out to a small percentage of American households each year; to put a citizenship question on the decennial form, which bureau officials warned would scare off noncitizens from responding; to pull data from other agencies, such as immigration enforcement offices and the Social Security Administration, which is what bureau officials recommended; or to combine a citizenship question with agency data.
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The justices initially agreed to hear arguments over whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossEx-counterintelligence official warns Trump administration not to be shortsighted on Huawei The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Hillicon Valley: Trump alleges Google manipulated voters against him | Hillary Clinton fires back | Twitter, Facebook take down misinformation targeting Hong Kong protests | Trump delays penalty on Huawei | Tech giants slam French digital tax at hearing MORE can be forced to answer questions under oath about his decision to add the citizenship question to the decennial population count.
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In March, U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur RossWilbur Louis RossEx-counterintelligence official warns Trump administration not to be shortsighted on Huawei The Hill's Morning Report - Trump searches for backstops amid recession worries Hillicon Valley: Trump alleges Google manipulated voters against him | Hillary Clinton fires back | Twitter, Facebook take down misinformation targeting Hong Kong protests | Trump delays penalty on Huawei | Tech giants slam French digital tax at hearing MORE, at the urging of political operatives Steve Bannon and Kris Kobach, announced that the Census would be asking for the citizenship status of every person living in the country as part of the 2628 decennial census.
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