Every 10 years Americans respond to a federal census in which they are asked to discuss everything from their income to their personal interests. The results of this study, which measures the ...

WASHINGTON --America's foreign-born population shot up to 31 million in the year 2000, an increase of 57 percent over a decade earlier, the U.S. Census Bureau said yesterday as it released final ...

Seattle remains a highly segregated city where whites and minorities live in neighborhoods apart, according to 2000 Census data and a new national study. While segregation in Seattle has declined ...

As the 1980s became the 1990s, the U.S. Census Bureau ran a TV advertising campaign that musically urged Americans: “Answer the Census, we’re counting on you.” But some in government, and the legal ...

As the new figures from the 2000 census trickle out of Washington and government demographers exclaim over “shifting populations” and “expanding pockets of diversity,” some activists and sociologists ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda Mahdesian grew up feeling a part of the black Chicago neighborhood in which she was raised. But as the daughter of a black father and white mother, she never felt completely at ...