In Silicon Valley, selling people on the census in Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Tagalog is so yesteryear. Census workers are now speaking Punjabi at gurdwaras, Somali at mosques and Hindi at ...

The Census bureau is spending $133 million between January and May to publicize the national head-count -- in 28 languages, including some as obscure as Hmong. The census, conducted every 10 years, is ...

The number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has nearly tripled over the past three decades, far outpacing the overall population growth, U.S. data ...

This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in ...

To count immigrants who might be overlooked otherwise, federal officials are adding seven languages to questionnaires for the 2020 US census. Next year, people can respond to census questions online ...

ST. PAUL — The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that Hmong and Somali — two of the most ...

There will be more than twice as many language options for the 2020 census than in previous years, NPR reports, making the nationwide survey more accessible to a variety of U.S. residents. For the ...

With our free press under threat and federal funding for public media gone, your support matters more than ever. Help keep the LAist newsroom strong, become a monthly member or increase your support ...

The Stats Can data also revealed on-reserve First Nation housing is getting worse. The data paints a picture of a young and growing Indigenous population — First Nation, Inuit and Métis — which is ...

The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that two of the most spoken languages in Minnesota ...