Other Facts: 1790 - The first US Census is conducted by US marshals and their assistants. They travel house to house gathering information about the residents. The census counts 3.9 million people at ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is calling for a new census of American households to be conducted and for migrants who did not enter the country legally to be excluded from the count. "I have ...

For the first time in 27 years, the U.S. government is changing how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity, an effort that federal officials believe will more accurately count residents who ...

Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo. Aliza ...

The U.S. Commerce Department's Census Bureau said on Friday it would next week publish August's construction spending, factory orders and international trade, data that were delayed because of the ...

US President Donald Trump on Thursday ordered officials to work on a new census excluding undocumented immigrants, as the White House presses Republican states to draw more favorable voter maps ahead ...

President Donald Trump declared in a Thursday morning Truth Social post that he has directed the Commerce Department to start working on a new census, noting that illegal aliens in the U.S. will not ...

Here’s some background information about the census, a count of US residents that takes place every 10 years. The Census Bureau is part of the Department of Commerce. Most recent population ...