Hansi Lo Wang
Hansi Lo Wang is a national correspondent for NPR based in New York City. He reports on the people, power and money behind the 2020 census.
Wang received the American Statistical Association's Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award for covering the Census Bureau and the Trump administration's push for a citizenship question.
His reporting has also earned awards from the Asian American Journalists Association, National Association of Black Journalists, and Native American Journalists Association.
Since joining NPR in 2010 as a Kroc Fellow, he has reported on race and ethnicity for Code Switch and worked on Weekend Edition as a production assistant.
As a student at Swarthmore College, he worked on a weekly podcast about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Census Bureau hopes to hire around a half million workers by next spring to complete the national head count. But it's running into trouble with low unemployment and background-check delays.
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The House Oversight Committee released communications involving Thomas Hofeller, who previously concluded that including the change to the census would ultimately benefit Republicans.
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Months after courts blocked the question from appearing on 2020 census forms, the Census Bureau released early findings from a national experiment testing public reaction to the controversial inquiry.
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The federal government plans to hire eligible noncitizens as census translators and door knockers if it can't recruit U.S. citizens with needed language skills, continuing a practice from 2010.
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The Census Bureau is gathering records on people's U.S. citizenship status as part of Trump administration efforts to produce data that a GOP strategist said could politically benefit Republicans.
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The Census Bureau says it will change how it counts service members deployed overseas and continue to count prisoners as residents of their correctional facilities for the coming national head count.
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The Census Bureau is planning to send workers to personally visit every household in Paradise, Calif.; Mexico Beach, Fla.; and Puerto Rico, which are still recovering from wildfire and hurricanes.
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The group is concerned the Trump administration won't follow more than 200 years of precedent in dividing up seats in Congress based on numbers that include unauthorized immigrants.
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The lawsuit extends a legal fight over the Trump administration's efforts to produce data that a GOP strategist said could be used to politically benefit "Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites."
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The Trump administration ordered the Census Bureau to produce citizenship data state officials can use when redrawing voting districts. But the bureau says no state officials asked for that data.