Category: Census Bureau

US Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham Retires as Administration Transitions

The director of the U.S. Census Bureau announced that he is retiring from a long career with the federal government, about a week after a whistleblower said he was pressuring bureau officials to collect and report data on non-citizens before the Jan. 20 transition. Director Steven Dillingham, a President Donald Trump appointee, said in a statement…


Census Bureau to Miss Apportionment Deadline

The Census Bureau announced it will miss a statutory deadline on Dec. 31 for handing in the numbers used to apportion congressional seats. In a statement on Wednesday, the bureau said that it continues to process the data collected from the census and plans to deliver a “complete and accurate state population count for apportionment in…