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In this Aug. 12, 2021, file photo with the downtown skyline in the background, a roofer works on a new home being built in a new housing development as expansive urban sprawl continues in Phoenix. Some of the largest U.S. cities challenging their 2020 census numbers aren't getting the results they hoped for from the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin) **FILE**

Phoenix now largest U.S. city to successfully challenge 2020 census numbers

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Lights from inside buildings illuminate the skyline, Monday, Feb. 5, 2018, in Austin, Texas. Some of the largest U.S. cities challenging their 2020 census numbers aren't getting the results they hoped for from the U.S. Census Bureau. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Census rejecting some big-city complaints of 2020 undercounts

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Tourists look out onto the city skyline from Christmas Tree Point on top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco, Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022. (Jessica Christian/San Francisco Chronicle via AP)

U.S. Census Bureau redefines meaning of ‘urban’ America

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Traffic winds its way through the tangle or roads connecting the Fort Pitt Bridge with the Fort Duquesne Bridge at Pittsburgh's Point on Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2022. (Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via AP)

U.S. moved online, worked more from home as pandemic raged

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Residents have begun receiving the U.S. Census Bureau's request for information receiving letters with a census identification number to answer questions about their households online. U.S. Bureau officials said Friday, May 6, 2022, they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire, but they're waiting on another federal office to start the conversation. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP) **FILE**

Census errors will distort elections, funding for next decade

By Hans A. von Spakovsky

This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn't be fired without cause and new questions to the census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation which attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation's head count that took place during the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A runner jogs along the shore of Lake Michigan Wednesday, July 20, 2022, as downtown Chicago skyline is seen in the background. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

Where young adults moved to based on race and ethnicity

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Scout, a transgender man who uses one name, stands in the entrance to his home in Providence, R.I., Wednesday, June 8, 2022. The 2020 census questionnaire drove Scout crazy. With no direct questions about sexual orientation and gender identity, it made him feel invisible, not worth including in the U.S. head count. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Census wants to know how to ask about sexuality and gender

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016, photo, a statue of Roger Williams over looks the skyline, in Providence, R.I. One of Colonial America's most important freethinkers has a new role as a marketing tool for the place he settled 380 years ago. Roger Williams founded Providence as a refuge for dissidents experimenting with ideas that formed the backbone of U.S. democracy. Now state leaders are harkening back to his legacy as a draw for businesses and young people looking for a place that matches their ideals. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Rhode Island census overcount saved seat in Congress

By Jennifer McDermott - Associated Press

FILE - Census Bureau Director nominee Robert Santos, testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, Thursday, July 15, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Santos said Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, that he has gone on a listening tour with stakeholders and the agency is making permanent community outreach efforts in an effort to restore any trust that was lost following attempts by the Trump administration to politicize the nation's head count. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Time to retool census? Some think so after minorities missed

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

College students enjoy the outdoors at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles, March 1, 2022. The U.S. grew wealthier, better educated, young adults moved less and poverty declined during the second half of the last decade, according to new data released Thursday, March 17, 2022 by the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

U.S. grew wealthier, better educated in 2nd half of 2010s

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Indians, some wearing face masks as a precaution against the COVID-19, crowd a weekly market in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. In India, which has been getting back to normal after a devastating COVID-19 outbreak earlier this year, omicron is once again raising fears, with more than 700 cases reported in the country of nearly 1.4 billion people. The capital, New Delhi, banned large gatherings for Christmas and New Year's, and many other states have announced new restrictions, including curfews and vaccination requirements at stores and restaurants. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Census Bureau: World grew by 74 million over past year

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This March 18, 2020, file photo taken in Idaho shows a form for the U.S. Census 2020. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)

U.S. population growth at lowest rate in pandemic’s 1st year

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - Students finish loading belongings into a U-Haul truck as they move out of their dorm in Washington on March 18, 2020. The proportion of people who moved over the past year fell to its lowest rate in the 73 years that it has been tracked, in a refutation of popular anecdotes that there was a great migration in the U.S. during the pandemic, according to figures released Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021 by the U.S. Census Bureau. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Contrary to popular belief, no great migration in pandemic

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 7, 2020, file photo, a person wearing a protective mask walks in front of the skyline on Bernal Heights Hill during the coronavirus pandemic in San Francisco. California's population has declined for the first time in its history. State officials announced Friday, May 7, 2021, that the nation's most populous state lost 182,083 people in 2020. California's population is now just under 39.5 million. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)

California leaving: State population declines for first time

By ADAM BEAM - Associated Press