U.S. Census

On today's show, we heard about new census data from Michigan, and how the Michigan History Center is helping families preserve their legacies. Then, one food writer dished on simple summer recipes, and a DNR forester gave an update on spongy moths. To wrap up, an ACLU representative gave an update on an abortion rights ballot initiative in Michigan.

Detroit became the largest American city to officially challenge its 2020 Census count this week, and it comes armed with a study supporting its claims that the city’s population was undercounted. One of the study's main researchers, University of Michigan sociologist Jeffrey Morenoff, was a guest on Stateside Wednesday.

No census has been perfect. COVID-19, Trump officials' interference and the Census Bureau's new privacy protections have raised concerns about the reliability of demographic data from the 2020 count.

The push is on in Michigan to get as many people counted as part of the U.S. Census as possible.In Saginaw Wednesday, that meant standing in the rain.“Did…

Today on Stateside, while the United States Census of 2020 is still being counted, Michigan responses are higher than the national average. But some…

Every 10 years, the United States attempts a massive feat: trying to count every person who lives here. Not only is the census a huge undertaking, it has…

New estimates released Monday from the U.S. Census Bureau show the state’s population creeping upward—but still just shy of the ten million mark in…

Public debate over a potential citizenship question and immigration enforcement, combined with the census going online, threatens an accurate head count, according to research by the Urban Institute.

Never before has the U.S. census directly asked for the citizenship status of every person living in every household. The question the Trump administration wants on the 2020 census could change that.

Community leaders and city officials in Detroit gathered Monday to launch what's being called the Be Counted Detroit: Census 2020 campaign.The effort aims…