Hansi Lo Wang
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a national correspondent for NPR reporting on the people, power and money behind the U.S. census.
Wang was the first journalist to uncover plans by former President Donald Trump's administration to end 2020 census counting early.
Wang's coverage of the administration's failed push for a census citizenship question earned him the American Statistical Association's Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. He received a National Headliner Award for his reporting from the remote village in Alaska where the 2020 count officially began.
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The Department of Homeland Security has finalized an agreement to share records that the Census Bureau says will help it produce data about the citizenship status of every person living in the U.S.
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Dropping his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, Trump says he wants agencies to provide information they have on citizenship, noncitizenship and immigration status.
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Days after the Supreme Court ruled to keep the question off the census for now, the Trump administration decided to stand down on its efforts to push for its addition on forms for next year's count.
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Trump's tweets came hours after the Court decided to keep a question about citizenship off the form to be used for the head count.
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Close to a half-million households in most of the U.S. are receiving letters for a last-minute experiment gauging how adding a citizenship question could affect how people respond to the 2020 census.
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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.
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Who gets counted in the 2020 census? What kind of information do households have to give? NPR answers questions about the national head count required by the U.S. Constitution once a decade.
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A group of Democrats says the data could help more LGBTQ people get access to social services and strengthen civil rights protections. Some privacy experts worry the data could be used against people.
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The New York-led lawsuit joins similar legal action against the Census Bureau and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross by California, the city of San Jose, Calif., and individuals from Maryland and Arizona.
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Aaron Carapella couldn't find a map showing the original names and locations of Native American tribes as they existed before contact with Europeans. That's why the Oklahoma man designed his own map.