2020 Census

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In Major Shift, Pa. Panel Votes To Count Incarcerated People In Home Districts, Not State Prisons

The move to eliminate "prison gerrymandering" will benefit communities of color when new House and Senate maps are drawn, but Republicans are questioning its legitimacy.

The U.S. Census Bureau released the long-awaited state population totals Monday as part of the decennial count that determines the distribution of 435 congressional seats as well as Electoral College votes.

Politics and Government

Pennsylvania Will Lose One U.S. House Seat After Redistricting

Spotlight PA is an independent, non-partisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News,…

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Politics and Government

Hold Up In Census Data Used For Redistricting Could Lead To Delay In Pa.'s 2022 Primary

Anne Danahy

The U.S. Census Bureau said Friday that it will get redistricting data to the states by the end of September, not the end of March as originally planned,…

Politics and Government

Take Note: NPR's Hansi Lo Wang On The 2020 Census

Jenna Spinelle

Hansi Lo Wang is a national correspondent for NPR and an award-winning journalist. He has been reporting on the 2020 census for NPR since 2017. He…