The #2030Census will guide billions in federal funding for schools, healthcare, and other essential services in CA communities. We're launching the #PhilanthropyCA Statewide Funders Table to align on how #philanthropy can ensure every Californian is counted.
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3. ICYMI: In December 2025, the then-chief statistician at the White House's Office of Management and Budget signaled a potential rollback of the racial and ethnic categories approved for the #2030Census and other future federal government forms
NEW: GOP Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, the House Oversight Committee's chair, asks the Census Bureau to hand over by April 7 documents about how it's working to ensure "partner organizations remain politically neutral and unbiased during any and all work they perform" during the #2030Census & tests
3. ICYMI: The Trump administration has proposed to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the #2030Census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
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3. ICYMI: The Trump administration has proposed to include a question about U.S. citizenship status in this year's field test of the #2030Census, as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
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2. ICYMI: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year's field test of the #2030Census and has added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff
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MARCH 23, 2026 — The U.S. Census Bureau last month announced it has modified its 2026 Census Test sites to Huntsville, Alabama, and Spartanburg, South Carolina. These sites were selected to give the Census Bureau the opportunity to explore how working with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) could increase effectiveness and how to improve in-field enumeration processes for the 2030 Census. Starting on May 1, the Census Bureau will invite approximately 154,600 households in Spartanburg and Huntsville to respond to the test online in English only via computer, smartphone and tablet. Phone and mail responses will not be offered.
NEW: Census Bureau says it will ask households in Huntsville, Ala., & Spartanburg, S.C., to participate in this year's #2030Census field test starting May 1. From June 1 through Aug. 31, census workers & USPS letter carriers may visit households that don't self-respond
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NEW: A Commerce Department inspector general’s report finds the Census Bureau may have compromised #2030Census preparations during the Biden administration by selecting locations for this year's field test without a formal, documented methodology as required by its own statistical quality standards
NEW: For this year's #2030Census field test, postal workers are set to take part in two pilots — one as sworn Census Bureau employees, another as just USPS employees — to see if they can interview households "faster, better, cheaper," Postmaster General David Steiner says, adding it'll cost ~$200K
NEW: The Census Bureau has released updated neighborhood-level predictions of the percentage of households likely to not self-respond to the #2030Census. You can find each census tract's "Low Response Score" on this map
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NEW: A judge rejects Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio and West Virginia's request to lift a pause on a lawsuit that seeks to exclude U.S. residents without legal status and those with nonimmigrant visas from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state"
It's not clear yet for the #2030Census. The Census Bureau hasn't released its residence criteria. But some states have put in place redistricting requirements for reallocating counts of incarcerated people to where they last lived before they were imprisoned:
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My latest @npr.org story: The Republican push to alter the #2030Census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don’t take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults
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We, the Attorneys General for the States of New York, New Jersey, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin (the States) write to object to the Census Bureau Notice entitled “Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; 2026 Operational Test in Support of the 2030 Census” (the Notice), which was issued by the Census Bureau (the Bureau) and published in the Federal Register on February 3, 2026.
NEW: 21 Democratic state attorneys general call on the Trump administration to reverse its planned changes to this year's field test of the #2030Census, including using an unrelated survey form that includes a U.S. citizenship question and reducing six test sites to two
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NEW: @eliaslawgroup.bsky.social attorneys representing the NAACP and other groups ask a federal judge to let them help defend the Census Bureau against Missouri’s lawsuit that seeks to alter 2020 & #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state"
2. NEW: The Census Bureau says the review period for the #2030Census "Local Update of Census Addresses" operation is scheduled from October 2027 through March 2028, not October 2028 through March 2029 as its Feb. 17 Federal Register notice incorrectly said
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Defendants are deep into preparations for the 2030 Census, and issued the 2030 Census Operational Plan in July 2025. See 2030 Census Operational Plan, U.S. Census Bureau, July 22, 2025, available at https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial/2030/program- management/planning/operational-plan/2030-census-operational-plan.pdf. As part of these overall planning efforts, Defendants are actively preparing to promulgate the residence criteria and residence situations for the 2030 Census in the next few months. That agency action will establish the position of the Department of Commerce on who should be counted as part of the 2030 Census and will govern the conduct of that census. Depending on its substance, the agency’s action could also potentially lead to the dismissal of this matter, or at least the narrowing of the issues under consideration and relief sought from the Court. Continuing the stay will conserve judicial and party resources by avoiding potentially unnecessary briefing on threshold arguments before the agency has even made a determination about the matter at the heart of this case—whether and how to count citizens of foreign countries in the United States for the 2030 Census.
NEW: Trump administration says its upcoming proposed rules for who should be counted in #2030Census may end Louisiana-led lawsuit, which seeks to exclude residents w/o legal status & those w nonimmigrant visas from results that 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state"
NEW: Census Bureau asks for public comment by April 18 on #2030Census plans for allowing tribal, state & local governments to review & give input on the home address list that will be used for the count, according to this Federal Register notice on the "Local Update of Census Addresses" operation
Trump officials propose testing a citizenship question amid a push to alter the census by Hansi Lo Wong
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#2030Census #Census #citizenship #immigrants #literacy #adulteducation #citizenshipquestion
NEW: Immigrant advocacy groups represented by @aclu.org ask a federal judge to let them help defend the Census Bureau against Missouri's lawsuit that seeking to alter #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state"
8. The 2026 Census Test form also doesn't reflect changes to racial and ethnic categories that the Biden admin approved for the #2030Census, including new "Middle Eastern or North African" and "Hispanic or Latino" checkboxes. Trump officials are considering rolling back those changes
My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration is proposing to include a U.S. citizenship question in this year's field test of the #2030Census in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., as Republicans push to alter the counts behind voting maps
NEW: Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio & West Virginia ask a federal judge to lift a pause on a lawsuit seeking to exclude people living in the states without legal status & those with nonimmigrant visas from #2030Census results that the 14th Amendment says must include “whole number of persons in each state"
3. Responses to the 2026 Census Test are supposed to inform #2030Census planning and, under federal law, can only be used for statistical purposes:
Is this person a citizen of the United States? Yes, born in the United States ➔ SKIP to question 10a Yes, born in Puerto Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, or Northern Marianas Yes, born abroad of U.S. citizen parent or parents Yes, U.S. citizen by naturalization – Print year of naturalization C No, not a U.S. citizen
NEW: This year’s #2030Census test in Huntsville, Ala., and Spartanburg, S.C., is using an unrelated survey form that includes a U.S. citizenship question, according to a regulatory filing (To be clear, this is for the “2026 Census Test,” not an actual census)
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My latest @npr.org story: The Trump administration has shrunk the number of locations for this year’s #2030Census field test and added plans to test replacing temporary census workers with postal workers, raising concerns about the Census Bureau’s ability to produce a reliable national head count
FEB. 2, 2026 ― Today the U.S. Census Bureau announced the launch of the 2026 Census Test. The test will focus on operations in two of the planned test site locations (Huntsville, AL and Spartanburg, SC). These operations include evaluating the use of the U.S. Postal Service in various capacities typically performed by Census Bureau field workers and limited activities for in-field enumeration. The Census Bureau remains committed to conducting the most accurate count in history for the 2030 Census and looks forward to the continued partnership with local communities.
4. NEW: After announcing cutbacks to this year's #2030Census field test with no explanation of why, the Census Bureau says it "remains committed to conducting the most accurate count in history" and "looks forward to the continued partnership with local communities”
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2. Here's a backup link to the public inspection version of the Federal Register notice about the "2026 Operational Test in Support of the #2030Census" (just in case it disappears):
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
BREAKING: The Census Bureau is scaling down this year's major #2030Census field test by reducing the six planned test sites to two — Spartanburg, S.C., & Huntsville, Ala. — while adding plans to test replacing temporary census workers with U.S. Postal Service staff, according to the Federal Register
