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A protester is silhouetted against a trans pride flag during a pro-transgender rights protest outside of Seattle Children's Hospital, Feb. 9, 2025, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson, File)

Census Bureau under Trump seeks permission to delete questions about gender identity

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - A briefcase of a census taker is seen as she knocks on the door of a residence, Aug. 11, 2020, in Winter Park, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

Census Bureau under Trump cuts loose expert advisors who work for free

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE = U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on oversight of the U.S. Census Bureau, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Robert Santos decides to resign as U.S. Census Bureau director midway through a 5-year term

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - People walk past posters encouraging participation in the 2020 Census in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, April 1, 2020.(AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Census officials defend the method that led to an increase in the count of multiracial people

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - The crowd reacts after Australia's Sam Konstas hits a six during play on the first day of the fourth cricket test between Australia and India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne, Australia, Thursday, Dec. 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake, file)

The world population will be 8.09 billion on New Year’s Day after a 71 million increase in 2024

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - A billboard highlighting the 2020 Census is seen in Dearborn, Mich., on Thursday, April 30, 2020. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Census data shows how Middle Eastern and Hispanic residents differ in racial identity

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

New United States citizens wave American flags during a naturalization ceremony during halftime at an NFL football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Jets, Dec. 15, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Immigration drives U.S. population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Census Bureau to change how it counts immigrants

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A pride flag is waved against the downtown Los Angeles skyline during the LA Pride in the Park festival at Los Angeles State Historic Park, June 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

It’s official, the census says: Gay male couples like San Francisco. Lesbians like the Berkshires

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

The Detroit skyline is seen, May 12, 2020, in Detroit. The city of Detroit — which has seen an exodus of tens of thousands of people — since the 1950s — has grown in population for the first in more than six decades, according to U.S. Census estimates. Data released Thursday, May 16, 2024, show Detroit's population rose by 1,852 people from 631,366 in 2022 to 633,218 last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Census Bureau estimates: Detroit population rises after decades of decline, South dominates growth

By Corey Williams and Mike Schneider - Associated Press

People mingle at a Philadelphia Distilling Daters Mixer Hosted by Date Him Philly, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. Some of the most populous urban areas in the United States have an imbalanced sex ratio. Many of the largest counties along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South skew female, while the largest urban counties in the West tilt male, according to data released this fall from the 2022 American Community Survey (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - Bret Harte Retirement Inn residents make their way down to the dining room for lunch, May 6, 2020, in Grass Valley, Calif. By the end of the century, the U.S. population will be declining without substantial immigration, senior citizens will outnumber children and the share of white residents who aren't Hispanic will be less than half of the population, according to population projections released Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 by the U.S. Census Bureau. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)

The Census Bureau sees an older, more diverse America in 2100 in three immigration scenarios

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A rainbow flower sits in the jacket pocket of Scout, a transgender man who uses one name, at his home in Providence, R.I., June 8, 2022. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, asked the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for people age 15 and above on its most comprehensive annual survey of life in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Census Bureau wants to test asking about sexual orientation, gender identity on biggest survey

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - Jaqueline Benitez, who depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, file)

Child poverty in the U.S. jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Activists hold signs promoting Native American participation in the U.S. census in front of a mural of Crow Tribe historian and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Joe Medicine Crow on the Crow Indian Reservation, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lodge Grass, Mont. A majority of tribal groups won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census that they had in the previous census. Some of the available numbers are going to be imprecise because of new privacy safeguards recently implemented by the U.S. Census Bureau, according to a new report by the Center for Indian Country Development. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Tribal nations face less accurate, more limited 2020 census data because of privacy methods

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