This page provides discussion and links to information related to demographic changes and analyses in Texas.
08/05/2020
How removing unauthorized immigrants from census statistics could affect House reapportionment If unauthorized U.S. immigrants aren't counted, 3 states could each lose a seat they otherwise would have had and 3 others each could gain one.
08/05/2020
http://www.sealynews.com/stories/trump-wants-to-use-the-census-to-dilute-the-power-of-texas,84332
Trump wants to use the census to dilute the power of Texas About 6% of the people in Texas are undocumented immigrants. They work and live in the state, and they pay taxes. They’re not citizens, and they can’t vote.
08/05/2020
Underfunded By Billions, Local RGV Officials Aim To Increase Historically Low Census Response The response rate for the 2020 census in the Rio Grande Valley is under 50% — compared to 62% nationally.
08/05/2020
EDITORIAL: Who counts: Valley, state big losers under census command President Trump last week ordered the director of the U.S. Census Bureau to subtract undocumented immigrants from the 2020 enumeration. Doing so would significantly affect the Rio Grande Valley, the state of Texas and other areas where immigrants are a large part of the population. It would weaken o...
08/05/2020
Extended Census response period gives Texas the opportunity to boost its response rate The U.S. Census Bureau extended the census response period to Oct. 31, which gives Texans, ranked 40th for responses and at risk of undercounting, extra time to consider how they could impact reapportionment and city planning.The census response period was originally planned to end on July 31. A
08/05/2020
Texas A&M students should claim College Station as home College Station is the proud home of Texas A&M University, the force that brings thousands of students, families and jobs to the Brazos Valley. As enrollment has surged, Aggies increasingly
08/05/2020
http://www.ntxe-news.com/artman/publish/article_120846.shtml
Respond to the Census at Bonham Public Library Information collected in the census will inform the allocation of more than $675 billion in federal funding each year.
08/05/2020
https://www.fox7austin.com/news/fox-7-discussion-2020-census-concerns
FOX 7 Discussion: 2020 Census concerns Travis County GOP Executive Director Brian Ruddle and Ed Espinoza, executive director of Progress Texas, join Rebecca Thomas on FOX 7 Austin to talk about the concerns about the 2020 census's accuracy due to the cut schedule.
08/05/2020
Smith County leads East Texas in Census self-response rates; Sabine County ranks lowest Watch KLTV 7 News at 10.
08/05/2020
Census 2020: LUPE's work to get unincorporated Laguna Heights counted just got harder LAGUNA HEIGHTS, Texas – La Unión del Pueblo Entero members say their efforts to get a strong Census 2020 completion rate in Laguna Heights have just been undermined by the Trump administration. The one-two punch from Washington started with President Trump’s memorandum not to count undocumented...
08/05/2020
Why Democrats and civil rights groups say Trump's latest census order could harm Texas The president's critics say he's trying to limit Hispanic participation in the 2020 Census.
08/05/2020
U.S. Census Bureau to halt counting operation a month earlier than expected The self-response deadline has moved up to Sept. 30.