At the beginning of April, all Americans will be asked to participate in a special event that takes places once every 10 years: the census. The nation will be examining and tabulating the sizes and ...
The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, From the Ancient World to the Modern Age, by Andrew Whitby, Basic Books, 368 pages, $30 The census is almost as old as the state itself: ...
The 2020 census, like those that came before it, was to be the nation’s largest peacetime mobilization, deploying up to 500,000 census takers to follow up with households that do not respond either ...
In April, the Supreme Court began to hear arguments about one of the central requirements of the Constitution. It’s right there, in Article I, Section 2, clause 3: For a government of the people to ...
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Almost a century ago, a law was passed that set up a once-a-decade fight for representation in Congress and the Electoral College after each census. It's meant that one state's win is another's loss.
A colonial data project spanning provinces, dates and methods, the census revealed as much about British administration as it ...
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