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Recent events including changing immigration policies have led to significant confusion surrounding the 2020 Census, which is a once-in-a-decade effort to count all the people living in the United States—not all the citizens, but all the people living here. Both congressional representation and federal funding for a range of social programs are pegged to the number of inhabitants. And Cleveland […]

(from a phrase in Animal Farm, by George Orwell) Let’s Count Together Once again, we, the inhabitants of the United States, are going to be counted. The government assigns an extraordinary amount of resources to make sure the census officers reach even the most remote places. Officially, Census 2020 began this past January 21 by counting people who live in any […]

(De una frase de La granja de los animales, de George Orwell) Contemos juntos Una vez más nosotros, los habitantes de los Estados Unidos, vamos a ser contados. El gobierno asigna una extraordinaria cantidad de recursos para asegurarse de que los oficiales de Censo lleguen hasta los más remotos parajes. Oficialmente, el Censo 2020 comenzó el pasado 21 de enero […]

This year the United States will undertake its 24th census. The goal will be to arrive at a total number of the individuals who live in this country. But numbers without context, without narrative, mean very little. On the other hand, when considered in contextualized groups, numbers have a story to tell. Such groupings can be based on geography or […]