Census Bureau

New plans to categorize Americans leave out one important group

The Biden administration has proposed new ways to classify people for the 2030 census, with more racial groups than ever.

Reorganization

FILE - This Sunday, April 5, 2020, file photo, shows an envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident in Detroit. A U.S. Census Bureau director couldn't be fired without cause and new questions to the census form would have to be vetted by Congress under proposed legislation which attempts to prevent in the future the type of political interference into the nation's head count that took place during the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

The Census Bureau gets a report card on how it learns its lessons

Budget

FILE - Residents have begun receiving the U.S. Census Bureau's request for information receiving letters with a census identification number to answer questions about their households online. U.S. Bureau officials said Friday, May 6, 2022, they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnic questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category on the 2030 census questionnaire, but they're waiting on another federal office to start the conversation. (John Roark/The Idaho Post-Register via AP, File)

Census Bureau, it turns out, didn’t spend as much as once thought

Federal Newscast

The Census Bureau fine tunes almost everything it does

Agency Oversight

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Calling all farmers: USDA wants to know how your last harvest went

People

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Service members see a 12% boost in housing allowance

Defense

Agencies need to do more to break down language barriers, DOJ says

Management

FILE - The U.S. Capitol in Washington is pictured on Friday, August 5, 2022. Democrats pushed their election-year economic package to Senate passage Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022, a compromise less ambitious than Biden’s original domestic vision but one that still meets party goals of slowing global warming, moderating pharmaceutical costs and taxing immense corporations. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File)

Bill to prevent Schedule F from resurfacing advances out of House committee

Congress

File - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen testifies before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, May 10, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The U.S. will close the last avenue for Russia to pay back its billions in debt to international investors on Wednesday, making a Russian default on its debts for the first time since the Bolshevik Revolution all but inevitable. The Treasury Department said in a notification Tuesday that it does not plan to renew the license to allow Russia to keep paying its debtholders through American banks. (Tom Williams/Pool via AP, File)

Yellen memo calls for IRS modernization to help ID tax evasion schemes perpetrated by top earners

Federal Newscast

A view of an iphone showing the new NHS COVID-19 mobile phone application after the app went live on Thursday morning in London, Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020. A new report group says digital contact tracing apps, artificial intelligence and other tech tools that European governments rolled out to combat COVID-19 failed to play a key role in solving the pandemic and now threaten to make such monitoring widely accepted. The nonprofit research group AlgorithmWatch said Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021 that the health surveillance technologies many countries deployed were often adopted without enough transparency, safeguards or democratic debate. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein, File)

What government can learn from marketers

Commentary

Researchers ask Census to stop controversial privacy method

Agency Oversight

The Census Bureau resets with a new five-year strategic plan

The Census bureau is looking towards 2030 and modernizing the other products it produces more frequently. Federal Drive host Tom Temin talked about some…

Agency Oversight

White House wants agencies to increase, improve collection of LGBTQ data

Federal data experts say decades of research on sexual orientation and gender identity can point agencies in the right direction on including LGBTQ populations…

Big Data

The Office of Personnel Management headquarters in Washington, D.C. (AP/Jacquelyn Martin)

Agency leaders trying to get along better with federal employee unions

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, some agency leaders are taking a closer look at improving cooperation with unions.