Mike Schneider

Homeschooling doubled in the U.S. from pandemic鈥檚 start to last fall

March 24, 2021 at 12:40 p.m.

The rate of households homeschooling their children doubled from the start of the pandemic last spring to the start of the new school year last September, according to a new...

Bye, Bismarck: 144 cities could lose status as metro areas

March 6, 2021 at 1:13 p.m.

Bye-bye, Bismarck. So long, Sheboygan. Those cities in North Dakota and Wisconsin, respectively, are two of 144 that the federal government is proposing to downgrade from the metropolitan statistical area...

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Calendar timing means virus deaths won鈥檛 be seen in census

February 6, 2021 at 12:50 p.m.

The human loss from the coronavirus will not be reflected in the 2020 census because of a matter of timing, which could save a congressional seat for New York but...

Time, transparency needed as Biden inherits frazzled census

January 21, 2021 at 11:07 a.m.

Battered by criticism that the 2020 census was dangerously politicized by the Trump administration, the U.S. Census Bureau under a new Biden administration has the tall task of restoring confidence...

Vehicles stop at a drive-thru U.S. Census participation campaign organized by Montana Native Vote on the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Mont. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. There have always been geographic and cultural challenges to Census taking on Native lands, but the pandemic dealt a devastating setback. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)

Census takers fall short of target goal in areas of US

October 23, 2020 at 10:44 a.m.

From tribal lands in Arizona and New Mexico to storm-battered Louisiana, census workers who go door to door were unable to reach all the households they needed for a complete...

Supreme Court halts census in latest twist of 2020 count

October 13, 2020 at 4:13 p.m.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday stopped the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident from continuing through the end of October. President Donald Trump's administration had asked the nation's...

Disney to lay off 28,000 at its parks in California, Florida

September 29, 2020 at 4:05 p.m.

Squeezed by limits on attendance at its theme parks and other restrictions due to the pandemic, The Walt Disney Co. said Tuesday it planned to lay off 28,000 workers in...

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“It抖阴ap going horribly”: College towns fret about census count

September 9, 2020 at 11:41 a.m.

Betsy Landin was listed by her parents on the 2020 census as living at her family's home in Phoenix when she really should have been counted in the college town...

Amid concerns of the spread of COVID-19, census worker Ken Leonard wears a mask as he mans a U.S. Census walk-up counting site set up for Hunt County in Greenville, Texas, Friday, July 31, 2020. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Worries about 2020 census鈥� accuracy grow with cut schedule

August 4, 2020 at 3:22 p.m.

The U.S. Census Bureau is cutting its schedule for data collection for the 2020 census a month short as legislation that would have extended the national head count抖阴ap deadlines stalls...

This photo from June 26, 2020 shows Buck Newsome, left, a Baby Boomer, and his son, Chris Newsome, of the Millennial generation, as they pose for a photo while having lunch together in Newtown, Ohio. American’s two largest generations can agree on something: the coronavirus pandemic has hit them both hard. For Baby Boomers, named for the post-World War II surge of births, that means those who retired or are nearing retirement age are seeing their retirement accounts in a free fall. Millennials, usually defined as those born between 1981 and 1996, who became adults in this century, are getting socked as they were trying to begin careers or moving into peak earning years after many walked off college campuses into the Great Recession. (AP Photo/Dan Sewell)

Sorry, boomers: millennials and younger are new U.S. majority

August 3, 2020 at 9:15 a.m.

Sorry, boomers. Millennials and their younger siblings and children now make up a majority of the U.S. population.

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