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von Spakovksy: Census counting mistakes rooted in 10-year partisan plan to 'distort congressional representation'

The U.S. Census Bureau reported in May that it overcounted the population in many blue states and undercounted in red states, and the Capital Research Center (CRC) says that the miscounting wasn’t purely by chance.

Inflation causes the number of Americans struggling to pass its '2020 pandemic peak'

New data reveals that amid high inflation, the number of American households that report having trouble paying their bills has surpassed the peak from the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic era. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden's approval rating continues to drop this month.

Census Bureau: More than 40% of business owners experience large negative impact from pandemic

From April 26 to June 6, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the percentage of business owners who have said that there has been a large negative effect has declined with 41.3 percent of respondents saying that there had been a large negative effect, and 43.3 percent saying they experienced a moderate negative effect.

14.3% of Washington, D.C., residents live in poverty, Census Bureau finds

Washington, D.C., residents living below the poverty line in 2017-18 made up 14.3 percent of the state’s population, the eighth highest rank among the 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to new Census Bureau data.

Washington, D.C.’s population rose 1.0% from mid-2017 to mid-2018

Washington, D.C.’s population increased by 6,764, or 1.0 percent between July 1, 2017, and July 1, 2018, according to estimates released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau.