The purpose of an accurate census count is to help the government understand the people for whom it is responsible — full stop. A fully inclusive census is vital for informing policy-making, whether ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A federal judge on Tuesday tossed out a ...

To paint a picture of farming in the nation, agriculture groups and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) use the Census of Agriculture, undertaken every five years by the agency’s National ...