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New United States citizens wave American flags during a naturalization ceremony during halftime at an NFL football game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the New York Jets, Dec. 15, 2024, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Phelan M. Ebenhack, File)

Immigration drives U.S. population growth to highest rate in 23 years as residents pass 340 million

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A pair of migrant families from Brazil pass through a gap in the border wall to reach the United States after crossing from Mexico in Yuma, Ariz., June 10, 2021, to seek asylum. (AP Photo/Eugene Garcia, File)

Census Bureau to change how it counts immigrants

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A pride flag is waved against the downtown Los Angeles skyline during the LA Pride in the Park festival at Los Angeles State Historic Park, June 8, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

It’s official, the census says: Gay male couples like San Francisco. Lesbians like the Berkshires

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

The Detroit skyline is seen, May 12, 2020, in Detroit. The city of Detroit — which has seen an exodus of tens of thousands of people — since the 1950s — has grown in population for the first in more than six decades, according to U.S. Census estimates. Data released Thursday, May 16, 2024, show Detroit's population rose by 1,852 people from 631,366 in 2022 to 633,218 last year. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Census Bureau estimates: Detroit population rises after decades of decline, South dominates growth

By Corey Williams and Mike Schneider - Associated Press

People mingle at a Philadelphia Distilling Daters Mixer Hosted by Date Him Philly, in Philadelphia, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023. Some of the most populous urban areas in the United States have an imbalanced sex ratio. Many of the largest counties along the Eastern Seaboard and in the Deep South skew female, while the largest urban counties in the West tilt male, according to data released this fall from the 2022 American Community Survey (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Why more women live in major East Coast counties while men outnumber them in the West

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - Bret Harte Retirement Inn residents make their way down to the dining room for lunch, May 6, 2020, in Grass Valley, Calif. By the end of the century, the U.S. population will be declining without substantial immigration, senior citizens will outnumber children and the share of white residents who aren't Hispanic will be less than half of the population, according to population projections released Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023 by the U.S. Census Bureau. (Elias Funez/The Union via AP, File)

The Census Bureau sees an older, more diverse America in 2100 in three immigration scenarios

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

A rainbow flower sits in the jacket pocket of Scout, a transgender man who uses one name, at his home in Providence, R.I., June 8, 2022. The U.S. Census Bureau on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023, asked the Biden administration for permission to test questions about sexual orientation and gender identity for people age 15 and above on its most comprehensive annual survey of life in the U.S. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Census Bureau wants to test asking about sexual orientation, gender identity on biggest survey

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

FILE - Jaqueline Benitez, who depends on California's SNAP benefits to help pay for food, shops for groceries at a supermarket in Bellflower, Calif., on Feb. 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Allison Dinner, file)

Child poverty in the U.S. jumped and income declined in 2022 as coronavirus pandemic benefits ended

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Activists hold signs promoting Native American participation in the U.S. census in front of a mural of Crow Tribe historian and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Joe Medicine Crow on the Crow Indian Reservation, Aug. 26, 2020, in Lodge Grass, Mont. A majority of tribal groups won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census that they had in the previous census. Some of the available numbers are going to be imprecise because of new privacy safeguards recently implemented by the U.S. Census Bureau, according to a new report by the Center for Indian Country Development. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Tribal nations face less accurate, more limited 2020 census data because of privacy methods

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People walk through the town square Wednesday, July 26, 2023 in Lebanon, Tenn. City officials conducted a do-it-yourself census after concern about being under counted by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2020. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)

Cost of federal census recounts push growing towns to do it themselves

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

Sailors and marines line the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as it deploys from San Diego on Jan. 3, 2022. Two of the most populous states and two of the largest cities in the U.S. filed requests for corrections to their 2020 census figures at the end of last month. The slip-up, so to speak, reportedly took place on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. California officials believe its more than 5,000 crew members were wrongly assigned to San Diego's population total instead of neighboring National City's figures. (K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP)

Most populous U.S. states and city ask for census corrections over misplaced ship, missed students

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

People recite an oath during a naturalization ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in San Diego. Population estimates released Thursday, June 22, 2023, by the U.S. Census Bureau show what drove changes in different race and ethnic groups last year, as well as since the start of COVID-19's spread in the U.S. in April 2020. The United States had grown to 333.2 million people by the middle of last year, a 0.4% increase over the previous year, according to the 2022 population estimates. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Chance to challenge 2020 census numbers is ending, with funding for states and cities at stake

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

People recite an oath during a naturalization ceremony Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2023, in San Diego. Population estimates released Thursday, June 22, 2023, by the U.S. Census Bureau show what drove changes in different race and ethnic groups last year, as well as since the start of COVID-19's spread in the U.S. in April 2020. The United States had grown to 333.2 million people by the middle of last year, a 0.4% increase over the previous year, according to the 2022 population estimates. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

Immigration drove white, Asian population growth in U.S. last year

By Mike Schneider - Associated Press

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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