The changing categories the U.S. census has used to measure race
Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
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Racial categories, which have been on every U.S. census, have changed from decade to decade, reflecting the politics and science of the times.
Response to the pandemic has pushed the federal budget higher than it’s been in decades, but Americans are slightly less concerned about the deficit than in recent years.
The first full fiscal year of the Trump administration saw large increases in the number of people arrested and criminally prosecuted for immigration offenses.
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Much of the downturn in the share of immigrant births to Hispanics has been driven by a decline in births among Mexican-origin women.
The 2020 census began in Alaska in January, and the first numbers will be published by the end of the year.
Millennials are the largest adult generation in the United States, and the American family continues to change.
The 69 immigrants and children of immigrants in the 116th Congress claim heritage in 38 countries and are overwhelmingly Democrats.
This decade will likely be the first since the one that began in 1850 to break a long-running decline in American household size.
In 18 states and the District of Columbia, Latino children accounted for at least 20% of public school kindergarten students in 2017.
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