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Republicans renew efforts to limit people in US illegally from census count

Jan. 22, 2025 00:06 AM EST

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states have begun anew, with four Republican state attorneys general suing to alter the once-a-decade head count even before President Donald Trump’s second term in office began...

Multiracial boom in 2020 census was mostly an illusion, researchers say

Jan. 14, 2025 00:07 AM EST

When the 2020 census results were released, they showed a boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010. Two Princeton sociologists now say that jump was mostly an illusion. The 276% increase largely happened because of a change in how people...