The Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 estimates released last week found that about four in five Bay State municipalities counted more residents on July 1, 2024 than a year earlier.
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New Census numbers underscore competitiveness issues
STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE THE POPULATION of Massachusetts shrunk by nearly 8,000 people between July 2021 and July 2022, a drop of about 0.1 percent, but the newest estimate released in fresh data from the US Census Bureau puts the state’s population ahead of its revised 2020 Census level. The bureau’s “Vintage 2022 estimates of […]
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Supreme Court holds up citizenship question on census
IN A BLOW TO THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, the Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a citizenship question from being added to the 2020 Census, partially because the Commerce Department’s initial explanation for why it decided to include it appeared to be “contrived.” In a 5-4 decision, the justices sent back to a lower court the case challenging whether the census should contain a citizenship question. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey was one […]
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Massachusetts cannot afford an undercount in 2020
TODAY, THE US SUPREME COURT is hearing oral arguments on the addition of a question about citizenship on the 2020 Census. This proposed question compounds the climate of fear and distrust in the federal government and likely would lead to lower response rates among immigrant communities. Massachusetts has the seventh highest proportion of residents who are immigrants. […]