The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an ...

The 276% increase largely happened because of a change in how people were classified by the U.S. Census Bureau rather than ...

Two sociologists from Princeton University argue that the public was misled by 2020 census' multiracial boom findings.

Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions ...

Republican efforts to exclude people in the U.S. illegally from numbers used to divvy up congressional seats among states ...

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

Questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will now be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at the ...

The population of the United States and the world has grown over ... while there will be one death every 9.2 seconds. RELATED STORY | US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity The U.S ...