U.S. Census

A new federal rule ends a decades-long federal practice of classifying Middle Eastern and North African people as white.

The sentencing of the parents of the Oxford High School shooter, a survey on how comfortable students in the Grand Traverse region feel asking counselors for help, an online cannabis certificate program, and what some amendments to the US Census mean for Michigan’s Middle Eastern and North African residents.

Additional license plate reading cameras in Detroit, a five-year pilot program that aims to plant 75,000 trees throughout Detroit, freshwater jellyfish, the new Census category for Middle Eastern and North African communities, and a tech start-up that monitors air quality.

On today's show, we heard about new census data from Michigan, and how the Michigan History Center is helping families preserve their legacies. Then, one food writer dished on simple summer recipes, and a DNR forester gave an update on spongy moths. To wrap up, an ACLU representative gave an update on an abortion rights ballot initiative in Michigan.

Detroit became the largest American city to officially challenge its 2020 Census count this week, and it comes armed with a study supporting its claims that the city’s population was undercounted. One of the study's main researchers, University of Michigan sociologist Jeffrey Morenoff, was a guest on Stateside Wednesday.

No census has been perfect. COVID-19, Trump officials' interference and the Census Bureau's new privacy protections have raised concerns about the reliability of demographic data from the 2020 count.

The push is on in Michigan to get as many people counted as part of the U.S. Census as possible.In Saginaw Wednesday, that meant standing in the rain.“Did…

Today on Stateside, while the United States Census of 2020 is still being counted, Michigan responses are higher than the national average. But some…

Every 10 years, the United States attempts a massive feat: trying to count every person who lives here. Not only is the census a huge undertaking, it has…

New estimates released Monday from the U.S. Census Bureau show the state’s population creeping upward—but still just shy of the ten million mark in…