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Should the census ask about citizenship? Supreme Court to weigh in.

On April 23, the high court will weigh whether Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross acted lawfully in deciding to reinstate a citizenship question in the census.

How did we get here?

Required by the Constitution, an “enumeration” of all people living in the United States has been performed every 10 years since 1790. The data is used to calibrate most social and economic surveys in the U.S., and to determine everything from the amounts of federal funding for

How would a citizenship question affect the census?What is the Supreme Court interested in?Where does the 2020 census stand?

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