Hansi Lewong
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1,358 appearances
173 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3d ago
Hansi Lewong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But the Bureau's plans to start recruiting this fall for temporary workers for the census test may be derailed.
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Now that President Trump has extended the federal government's hiring freeze through mid October, the Bureau has not responded to MPR's question about whether it's asking for an exemption from the freeze for next year's census test.
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Anza LeWong, NPR News, Washington.
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There's less than five years left until the twenty thirty census, which will be used to redistribute political representation and federal funding.
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But the Census Bureau is planning to knock on doors as soon as next year to try out ways of getting a more accurate tally with what's called the 2026 Census Test.
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It's set to take place in six areas in the South and West, and the experiments' results are supposed to help the Bureau tackle longstanding undercounts of populations such as children under the age of five, people of color, and renters.
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But the Bureau's plans to start recruiting this fall for temporary workers for the census test may be derailed.
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Now that President Trump has extended the federal government's hiring freeze through mid October, the Bureau has not responded to NPR's question about whether it's asking for an exemption from the freeze for next year's census test.
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Anzi LeWong, NPR News, Washington.
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A key set of census results are used to determine how many congressional seats and electoral college votes each state gets for a decade.
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The Fourteenth Amendment says those results must include the quote whole number of persons in each state.
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Still speaking while traveling in Florida, President Trump said he supports an upcoming bill in Congress that calls for excluding the millions of people living in the states without US citizenship.
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During his first administration, Trump tried and failed to exclude people living in the U.S.
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without legal status from the twenty twenty census numbers used to reapportion house seats.
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Now a growing number of Republicans in Congress support excluding them as well as green card holders and all other residents without U.S.
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citizenship.
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If passed, these proposals will likely be challenged in court.
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