Census

A map from the U.S. Census Bureau shows various counties in Virginia (bottom half) and Maryland (top half) within the D.C. metropolitan area.

Circling the Swamp? The five US counties with highest household incomes surround DC

Katelyn Caralle · December 7, 2018 8:14 pm

Guide to Government

Barone’s Guide to Government: Census

Michael Barone · November 26, 2018 9:27 pm

This March 23, 2018, file photo shows an envelope containing a 2018 census letter mailed to a resident in Providence, R.I., as part of the nation's only test run of the 2020 census

Supreme Court to hear dispute over citizenship question on census

Melissa Quinn · November 16, 2018 7:38 pm

A faulty census will lead to a dubious reapportionment of congressional districts among states, and an even more dubious redistricting. (iStock by Getty Images)

Supreme Court lets upcoming census trial move forward

Melissa Quinn · November 2, 2018 9:56 pm

President Trump speaks to reporters on the South Lawn of the White House in D.C.

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to postpone trial in census case

Diana Stancy Correll · October 30, 2018 12:04 am

Supreme Court blocks Wilbur Ross deposition in challenge to Census citizenship question

Melissa Quinn · October 23, 2018 2:38 pm

Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Sergei Kislyak.

Wilbur Ross talked to Jeff Sessions, Steve Bannon about 2020 census question on citizenship

Kelly Cohen · October 11, 2018 8:29 pm

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross attends a cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room.

Appeals court denies Trump administration's request to block Wilbur Ross deposition in census question challenge

Melissa Quinn · October 9, 2018 9:37 pm

Undocumented students join a rally in support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA program outside the Edward Roybal Federal Building in downtown Los Angeles Friday, Sept. 1, 2017. President Donald Trump says he'll be announcing a decision on the fate of hundreds of thousands of young immigrants who were brought into the country illegally as children in the coming days, immigrants he's calling "terrific" and says he loves. Trump told reporters Friday, using a short-hand term for the nearly 800,000 young people who were given a reprieve from deportation and temporary work permits under the Obama-era DACA, program.

Will the US Census citizenship question be censored?

Karen Lugo · September 27, 2018 4:00 am

Health insurance coverage unchanged in Trump’s first year

Robert King · September 12, 2018 2:52 pm

Many researchers see a flaw in the official income and poverty rate, namely that it only counts cash income and excludes some of the in-kind government benefits that have grown in recent years, such as food stamps. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Incomes hit new record high and poverty fell to pre-recession low in 2017

Joseph Lawler · September 12, 2018 2:27 pm

Elderly hikers stand outside of a farm.

Beltway Confidential

The elderly aren’t actually dragging down the economy

Bruce Yandle · August 23, 2018 6:49 pm