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The plan also calls for aligning the mission of the government agency in charge of the next tally of the country’s residents with “conservative principles.”

The hotly contested question — “Is this a person a citizen of the United States?” — ultimately did not end up on the 2020 census forms.

The time for communities with a beef about how they were counted in the 2020 census has arrived.

Nearly 50 million people identified with a mysterious, catchall category on the 2020 census. Researchers say that will make it harder to use the data to address racial inequities over the next decade.

Genetic ancestry tests, changes to how census responses were categorized and more children born to parents who identify with different racial groups led to a 276% jump in the multiracial population.