In Silicon Valley, selling people on the census in Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Tagalog is so yesteryear. Census workers are now speaking Punjabi at gurdwaras, Somali at mosques and Hindi at ...

The Census bureau is spending $133 million between January and May to publicize the national head-count -- in 28 languages, including some as obscure as Hmong. The census, conducted every 10 years, is ...

The number of people in the United States who speak a language other than English at home has nearly tripled over the past three decades, far outpacing the overall population growth, U.S. data ...

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To count immigrants who might be overlooked otherwise, federal officials are adding seven languages to questionnaires for the 2020 US census. Next year, people can respond to census questions online ...

ST. PAUL — The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that Hmong and Somali — two of the most ...

There will be more than twice as many language options for the 2020 census than in previous years, NPR reports, making the nationwide survey more accessible to a variety of U.S. residents. For the ...

So I thought I spoke Bosnian, but apparently I don’t. At least that’s what the U.S. Census Bureau tells me. It hasn’t been fun having my cultural identity blurred for more than two decades by outdated ...

The 2020 Census forms can now be filled out online in 13 different languages so that immigrants are not overlooked. But local officials are concerned that two of the most spoken languages in Minnesota ...