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A week after an arson fire at Mississippi's oldest synagogue, Rachel Myers, a leader of the congregation's religious school, talks about how the congregation is doing and how it will rebuild. It’s not the first time the congregation has been attacked. In the late 1960s, the synag ... Show More

Under the Trump administration, federal prosecutors have been sent to investigate federal lawmakers, the chairman of the Federal Reserve and the widow of Renee Macklin Good.The Department of Justice is once again at the center of the news.At least five federal lawmakers say they ... Show More

Vice President J.D. Vance says the ICE officer who shot and killed Renee Macklin Good last week has "absolute immunity." Some legal experts have pushed back.For sponsor-free episodes of Consider This, sign up for Consider This+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Email us at c ... Show More

Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to count every single person living in the country. It's a complex undertaking with enormous stakes. But some people are very afraid of how that information will be used by the government — especially given how it's been misused in the ... Show More

<p>The latest census revealed that the United States had seen the second-slowest decade of population growth since 1790, when the count began.</p><p>The country may be entering an era of substantially lower population growth, demographers said.</p><p>How could this redefine the n ... Show More

The 2020 census data is finally here! At first glance, it paints a surprising portrait of a changing United States: The number of people who identify as white and no other race is smaller; the share of multiracial people has shot up; and the country's second-largest racial group ... Show More

What's behind counting people in a country? Neil and Sam talk about the census. 

Census returns are among the most popular records used by family historians and other researchers, but many of us give little thought as to what went on behind the scenes every time a census was taken. This talk explores the creation of the census, with the mass organisation of e ... Show More

Hola muy buenos días, tardes, noches. Ya sabe cuántas personas vivimos en México y cómo vivimos. En este episodio conoceremos los resultados obtenidos por el censo de población y vivienda, realizado por el INEGI el pasado 2020. Si no ha tenido la oportunidad de consultarlos o qui ... Show More

There are still Californians who need to be counted for the 2020 Census. Here in the Bay Area, there’s the extra challenge of making sure we count people who don't have housing and families whose homes have been affected by wildfires. And this matters a lot, because who gets coun ... Show More