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Since Beth is trying to take a well deserved day off, I will go ahead and post this for her. Her new piece -- together with Jae June and myself -- on what was covered about the impact of the Commerce DAO at JSM by the Census Bureau, as well as what ...
Proposed new rule for 2030 Census would (according to the TPM summary) "exclude undocumented immigrants, but also foreign students, H1-B visa holders, and many others from the count" AND would prohibit collecting data on race, ethnicity, and sexual ...
Since the 2025 administration change, disappearing federal datasets have sparked widespread concern – and confusion. Today, dataindex.us published the Federal Data Terminations Tracker – the most policy-relevant, verified source of federal ...
Trump administration's order delays release of data from the largest survey on American life countofcounting.substack.com Sent from my iPhone
Thanks for sharing this, @Beth Jarosz . The frustrating part (besides the delay) is that we've lost many of the usual ways for the Census Bureau to stay connected with data users. This delay could signal significant changes to ACS data products, but ...
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