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Every 10 years, the official population count results in the reapportionment of House seats and electoral votes among states. That and the following step of redistricting will shape representation, and political power, for the next decade.
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The co-founder of the NAACP displayed a series of hand-drawn charts and maps at the 1900 Paris Exposition.
While death certificates from the last eight weeks of 2020 and more are still being processed, over 334,000 more people died in 2020 than in all of 2019.
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With a federal eviction moratorium set to expire, here’s a look at renters, a group that makes up more than a third of US households.
According to US Census Bureau estimates, there were just over 40 million Americans with a disability in the US in 2018. 7.6 million were employed.
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According to US Census Bureau estimates, there were almost a million same-sex couple households in 2018. Just over half of them were female-coupled households.
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It's been a decade since the last official census. Get ready to be counted.
Every facet of population change is contributing to the decline in growth.
As of 2018, the foreign-born population comprises 14% of the US population, more than double their 6% share in 1980.
The federal government has counted the Native American population in various ways throughout the years. Recent data shows how the demographic is growing.
