The White House has taken the unusual step of deciding not to release an updated economic forecast as planned this year, a sign of the administration’s anxiety about how the coronavirus has ravaged the nation just months before the election.
Read moreThe Sea Shepherd Conservation Society sued Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross et al. in the Court of International Trade for failing to ban fish imports whose nets cause the death of Maui dolphins, an endangered species with only 57 in existence.
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A federal judge sanctioned the Department of Justice on Thursday for failing to turn over more than a tenth of the files required in the litigation over the 2020 census.
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Almost 300 people working for the U.S. Census Bureau last year had “major” issues with their background checks and lack of vetting oversight could pose risks to the public as the agency hires and deploys hundreds of thousands of census takers for the 2020 census, according to a watchdog report released last week.
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After shutting down field operations for a month and a half because of the pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau said Monday that it was restarting some work in the field for the 2020 census on a limited basis.
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At a Michigan gas station, the message is obvious — at least to Arabic speakers: Be counted in the 2020 census.
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The U.S. Census Bureau needs more time to wrap up the once-a-decade count because of the coronavirus, opening the possibility of delays in drawing new legislative districts that could help determine what political party is in power, what laws pass or fail and whether communities of color get a voice in their states.
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This week on Wall Street began and ended with bad news, but investors took it in stride.
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Democracy watchdogs and civic engagement researchers say expanding vote-by-mail nationwide faces formidable barriers and could frustrate election officials already hampered by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read moreThe Conservation Council for Hawai’i accuses Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross in a federal complaint of having violated the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act by failing to protect oceanic whitetip sharks from overfishing and ensure the rebuilding of the population, as mandated.
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Almost half of the immigrants who moved to the United States in the past decade were college-educated, a level of education greatly exceeding immigrants from previous decades, as the arrival of highly skilled workers supplanted workers in fields like construction that shrank after the Great Recession.
Read moreCensus Day — the date used to establish where a person lives for the once-a-decade count — arrived Wednesday with a nation nearly paralyzed by the coronavirus pandemic. But census officials vowed the job would be completed by its year-end deadline.
Read moreMore than half of U.S. counties had smaller populations in 2019 as compared with 2010, but in Texas, as so often happens, things got bigger, according to census data published Thursday.
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A nonpartisan government audit says preparations for the 2020 census are dangerously behind, weeks out from the nationwide launch, but the official at the helm told lawmakers Wednesday that the largest and most complex population count in U.S. history is on track.
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Beginning in mid-March, the U.S. Census Bureau will begin soliciting online responses from California residents, marking the first time the federal agency will use online tools to make its count.
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross suggested Thursday that the viral outbreak in China might offer an unexpected benefit for the U.S. economy: It could encourage American manufacturers in China to return to the United States.
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Accusing the Trump administration of jeopardizing public safety to appease gun lobbyists, 21 attorneys general sued the federal government Thursday over new rules that make it easier to distribute blueprints for 3D-printed guns online.
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Partisan frustrations over the 2020 census flared Thursday on Capitol Hill as House Democrats consulted experts on how to reach hard-to-count communities when the once-in-a-decade tally gets underway.
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The Department of Homeland Security has said it will share citizenship information with the U.S. Census Bureau following an order from President Donald Trump that is being challenged in federal court.
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U.S. technology companies that build artificial intelligence software for analyzing satellite imagery will face new restrictions on exporting their products to China and elsewhere.
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