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census

noun as in head count

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By 2022, women working full time and year-round peaked at making 84 cents on the dollar compared with men, census data show.

If it fails to do so, the next census won’t be protected from the directive’s harmful requirements.

Following the 2020 census, Louisiana created a new congressional map that included only one Black majority district instead of the previous two.

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According to 2020 census data, there are more than nine million black people with incomes above the white median.

In the war’s aftermath, rural America entered a slump lasting until after World War II. The 1920 census was the first showing more Americans in towns and cities than countryside.

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