News in Brief The Trump Administration Reinstates the Citizenship Question on the Census California's attorney general has already challenged the Trump administration's decision to include the question in federal court. Kate Wheeling
News in Brief The Department of Justice Pushes for Citizenship Question on 2020 Census According to recently obtained emails, the Census Bureau is hurriedly attempting to add a citizenship status question at the behest of the DOJ. Justin Elliott
Economics These Three Maps Show Where Poverty Is Worst in America Twenty-four states saw their poverty rate decline in 2016. Dwyer Gunn
Economics A New Census Bureau Report Shows the Economy Is (Mostly) Getting Better The economy continues its long recovery from the Great Recession. Dwyer Gunn
Economics A Closer Look at Poverty Across the United States This week, the U.S. Census Bureau released poverty estimates for every county across the country. Kate Wheeling
Economics The Future of Work: Can Minority Americans Shift the Labor Debate to the Left? The latest entry in a special project in which business and labor leaders, social scientists, technology visionaries, activists, and journalists weigh in on the most consequential changes in the workplace. Gary Segura
Economics A Poor Way of Measuring Poverty Millions of Americans live in poverty. We need to re-think what that means. Patricia Hart & Rachel Black
Education Why Do States With More Unemployed Men Have Higher Rates of Non-Marital Births? Parsing the results of a recent Census Bureau report. Philip N. Cohen