An entrepreneur in California is weighing whether to open a new restaurant. A national chain headquartered in Illinois is making regional hiring plans. And a big-box store in Colorado is deciding how ...

Steve Kahlfeldt wants his students to grasp how the census impacts them right now, not in some far-off future. For example, the data determines how much funding Title I students receive for hot lunch ...

As students prepare to hit the books, explore some fascinating Census facts centering on our nation's educational spending, classroom demographics, and graduation rates. Summer vacation is drawing to ...

Updated on March 6 at 10:10 a.m. ET Making sense of the census can be difficult. In the U.S., the national head count comes around once every 10 years. That's enough time for memories to fade and for ...

If you think the census is just the government's way of getting up in your business, you're way off. Census data, required by the U.S. Constitution every 10 years, is actually used to allocate funding ...

U.S. Census Bureau data newly released Thursday paints America as a more diverse and urban country today than it was 10 years ago. About 86% of the country’s population lives in metro areas, the ...

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