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Census Day is April 1, and the snapshot of where Americans live impacts billions of dollars of funding each year.

Analysis shows how Trump's census change would impact Congress

The Pew Research Center used 2017 data to estimate how many undocumented people are in each state.

Protesters in 2019 at the Supreme Court, which rejected a Trump administration plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. Now the president is directing the Census Bureau to take “all appropriate action” to determine the number of undocumented immigrants, even without the question.

Critics: Trump order to discount undocumented migrants in census will fail

Opponents immediately vowed to sue, saying the move was unconstitutional and unenforceable.

The entrance to the U.S. Census Bureau's office in Tucson.

Governor's office: Arizona not sharing driver's license data with census

A spokesman said Arizona is not among the states that made a data-sharing deal with the Census Bureau.

Census Day is April 1, and the snapshot of where Americans live impacts billions of dollars of funding each year.

Already fraught census count further challenged by pandemic

Though the pandemic has delayed parts of the census process, various groups are working to make sure everyone is counted.

Census Day is April 1, and the snapshot of where Americans live impacts billions of dollars of funding each year.

Census going forward despite coronavirus delays

The 2020 census will count people where they lived April 1.

Arizona 360 host Lorraine Rivera (center) walks through a wash with members of the Tucson Police Department's Substance Use Resource Team on March 10, 2020. In an area common for drug use, Rivera saw how officers implement the department's Deflection Program that allows them to offer people treatment for drug-related crimes instead of arrest.

COVID-19 preparedness, TPD deflection program, census undercount

Plus, understanding the long-term economic impacts of the novel coronavirus.

The entrance to the U.S. Census Bureau's office in Tucson.

Hard-to-count populations a concern ahead of 2020 census in Arizona

University of Arizona researcher Jason Jurjevich estimates up to 1.8 million Arizonans could go uncounted this year.

Most of the 57,000 jobs the Census Bureau hopes to fill in Arizona for the decennial census will be for enumerators, the people who go door to door to follow up with people who have not filled out their Census forms.

Help wanted, and wanted, and wanted: Census to hire 57,000 in Arizona

Most of the jobs in Arizona involve going door to door to interview people who have not filled out the census form.

A machine processes mail from the U.S. Census Bureau at its Print Data Capture Center in Phoenix.

U.S. Census Bureau hiring across state for 2020 census

That includes more than 50,000 temporary positions in Arizona.

A cell tower is visible in the foreground against the backdrop of the city of Tucson.

Census 2020, broadband in Arizona, Mayor Rothschild

How broadband speeds factor into quality of life.

A census 2010 employee rings a doorbell.

Census mail reminders will fall short in Arizona, Grijalva says

The representative from Arizona is worried the method will mean an undercount in the state's rural areas and tribal lands.

A census 2010 employee rings a doorbell.

GOP Leaders in Immigrant-Heavy States OK with Census Citizenship Question

The divide between red and blue states is stark as both prepare for a census that could ask about citizenship for the first time in 70 years.

A census 2010 employee rings a doorbell.

Arizona Officials Split on Census Citizenship Question

The governor and secretary of state are arguing for and against a proposed census question.

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