Census 2020
Census advocates stress importance of 2020 count
State and local officials stress the importance of the 2020 Census to Norwich and southeastern Connecticut.
Your Voice: CENSUS 2020
The decennial census is used to determine funding for highway construction, Pell grants, Head Start, Title 1 grants to local schools, SNAP benefits, Section 8 housing and much more.
Access to federal dollars is already a concern for Connecticut, which the Rockefeller Institute of Government says receives back only 74 cents for every dollar residents pay in federal taxes – the worst in the country. State officials say Connecticut will lose an estimated $2,900 for each person undercounted in the 2020 Census.
From March 12-20, households will begin receiving information on how to respond to the census by phone or by mail, or for the first time, online. From May to July, census workers will begin visiting homes that haven't responded.
GALLERIES: Census 2020
Attorney: Congressional seat data not ready until February
Published January 5, 2021
The U.S. Census Bureau has found new irregularities in the head count data that determines congressional seat allocations and the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending each year.
Census: Early analysis shows falsifying data was rare
Published December 31, 2020
The statistical agency said in a statement that a preliminary look at the data suggests 0.4% of the hundreds of thousands of census takers, also known as enumerators, may have either falsified data or performed their jobs unsuccessfully.
With deadline looming, group wants more census documents
Published December 29, 2020
With the Census Bureau days away from likely missing a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats, President Donald Trump's administration still hasn't turned over documents showing how it's crunching the data on a shortened schedule, according to a coalition of cities and civil rights groups.
Supreme Court rules challenge to Trump census plan is premature
Published December 18, 2020
The court’s decision Friday, led by its conservative justices, is not a final ruling on the matter and, while it allows Trump to pursue the plan for now, it's not clear whether he will receive final numbers from the Census Bureau before he leaves office next month.
Anomalies found in data put census deadline in jeopardy
Published November 19, 2020
The Census Bureau already was facing a shortened schedule of two and a half months for processing the data collected during the 2020 census — about half the time originally planned.
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Census takers fall short of target goal in areas of US
Published October 23, 2020
From tribal lands in Arizona and New Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana, census workers who go door to door were unable to reach all the households they needed for a complete tally of the U.S. population, a count that ended abruptly last week after a Supreme Court ruling.
Second group of judges blocks Trump order on House seats count
Published October 22, 2020
The decision from a panel of three district judges in California went further than last month's ruling by a panel of three federal judges in New York by saying that Trump's order in July not only was unlawful but also violated the Constitution.
Supreme Court will review Trump plan to exclude undocumented immigrants from Census
Published October 17, 2020
The Supreme Court announced Friday that it will review President Donald Trump's attempt to exclude undocumented immigrants when calculating how congressional seats are apportioned among the states. The unprecedented proposal could have the effect of shifting both political power and billions of dollars in federal funds away from urban states with large immigrant populations and toward rural and more Republican interests.
Appellate judges let 2020 census continue through October
Published October 7, 2020
The ruling by the three judges on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was a split decision for the Trump administration and a coalition of civil rights groups and local governments that had challenged the administration’s 2020 census schedule.
Census Bureau: Target could be met if not for court meddling
Published October 5, 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau could meet a year-end deadline for turning in numbers used for deciding how many congressional seats each state gets, if it wasn't for a federal judge's order extending the 2020 census for another month, Trump administration attorneys told appellate judges in court documents.
U.S. official: 2020 census to end Oct. 5 despite court order
Published September 28, 2020
The announcement came as a virtual hearing was being held in San Jose, California, as a follow-up to U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh's preliminary injunction.
Judge says 2020 census must continue for another month
Published September 25, 2020
A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results.
Advisory committee urges an extra month for 2020 census
Published September 21, 2020
A top advisory committee to the U.S. Census Bureau is urging the statistical agency to allow the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue through October instead of finishing at the end of September.
Study: Ending census early will cost Florida, Montana seats
Published September 18, 2020
A federal judge in San Jose is considering whether to let the 2020 census end in two weeks or have it continue through the end of next month.
Judges: Trump can't exclude people from district drawings
Published September 10, 2020
The federal judges in New York, in granting an injunction, said the presidential order issued in late July was unlawful and the harm it would cause would last a decade.
Attorneys argue Trump's exclusion order for count is illegal
Published September 3, 2020
The census is used to determine how to distribute $1.5 trillion in federal funding and how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets.
Watchdog chastises Census for missing laptops used for count
Published August 17, 2020
More than a dozen laptop computers used for an early phase of the 2020 census were lost, stolen or missing last year, and they may have contained personal information whose confidentiality is protected by federal law, according to an agency watchdog.
Census Bureau adds emails, phone calls to door-knocking
Published August 15, 2020
The 2020 census started for most U.S. residents in March, but some operations were interrupted by the pandemic.
Census Bureau drop-outs over virus complicate head count
Published August 9, 2020
Bob Garick was looking forward to being a field supervisor during the door-knocking phase of the 2020 census, but as the number of new coronavirus cases in Florida shot up last month, he changed his mind.
With hundreds hired, census workers knocking on doors in New London County
The bureau has hired 335 paid temporary workers in New London County and is continuing to hire and train people
Census will rush to complete its count by Sept. 30, a month early
Published August 4, 2020
The Census Bureau is ending efforts to count the country's population on Sept. 30, a month sooner than planned, the bureau's director announced Monday.
With time extension stalled, Census speeds up count schedule
Published August 1, 2020
The U.S. Census Bureau sped up the timetable for crunching 2020 census numbers on Friday after an earlier request for an extension stalled in the Senate and as pressure mounts to turn in data used to determine congressional districts by year's end, when President Donald Trump is still in office.
Officials share census message for military families: 'You count here'
Published July 30, 2020
Officials shared the message Thursday that military personnel and their families count for the U.S. Census where they live.
Experts worry about errors if census schedule is sped up
Published July 28, 2020
After asking for coronavirus-related deadline extensions in April, the Trump administration now appears to be abandoning that request by asking Congress for extra funding to wrap up the 2020 census “as quickly, and safely as possible" in a move that could help ensure the number-crunching for redrawing congressional districts takes place on President Donald Trump's watch.
Lt. Gov. Bysiewicz visits Taftville to urge people to fill out 2020 census
Published July 14, 2020
Norwich is lagging behind the state with 59.9% having filled out the census thus far.
U.S. population growth has been driven exclusively by minorities
U.S. racial and ethnic minorities accounted for all of the nation’s population growth during the last decade, according to new Census Bureau estimates.
Advocates worry blacks, Hispanics falling behind in census
Published June 19, 2020
Halfway through the extended effort to count every U.S. resident, civil rights leaders worry that minority communities are falling behind in responding to the 2020 census.
Census temporarily closes some field offices due to unrest
The U.S. Census Bureau says it has temporarily closed offices in several cities as a precaution as cities grapple with unrest following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis.
New London census responses lag behind state average
New London makes a renewed push and urges residents to fill out census information.
Connecticut’s redistricting could be squeezed by COVID-19
Connecticut is one of 15 states certain to miss deadlines for drawing new legislative districts unless the U.S. Census Bureau reconsiders a four-month delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the National Conference of State Legislatures said.
Census 2020 VIDEOS
OPINION
Counting heads by region adds up
The proposal for the Census to compare Connecticut's planning regions to counties would elevate the effectiveness of regional councils of government. And it could mean more federal dollars.
It's in everyone's interest to be counted in census
As the final push to count everyone continues, we urge all residents who have not yet been counted to step forward. Don't be intimidated into not being counted.
Census: Counting all
All should be counted. Cities provide the same level of services — police, fire, schooling, emergency medical aid — to undocumented immigrants as they do to U.S. citizens.
The Supreme Court's chance to save the Census
The citizenship question was added after research showed it would help Republicans to gerrymander congressional districts to better effect.