I’m Hansi Lo Wang, a national correspondent for NPR who covers the changing demographics in the U.S. Ask me anything, including the citizenship question controversy. - Politics

I’m Hansi Lo Wang, a national correspondent for NPR who covers the changing demographics in the U.S. Ask me anything, including the citizenship question controversy.
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I’m Hansi Lo Wang, a national correspondent for NPR who covers the changing demographics in the U.S. Ask me anything, including the citizenship question controversy.

Posted: 21 Feb 2019 07:19 AM PST

I've spent the last couple of years covering the run-up to the constitutionally mandated head count of every person living in the U.S. As my NPR colleague Linda Holmes puts it, these are "things that aren't sexy but affect the way we all live." The results of the 2020 census will determine how congressional seats and Electoral College votes are allocated among the states, as well as how an estimated $880 billion a year in federal funding are distributed to local communities, over the next decade.

In addition to the breaking news, like the Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether the controversial citizenship question will be added to the 2020 census, I report in-depth stories around the census. A recent example is assembling the timeline of how the Trump administration pushed for the citizenship question. That involved combing through more than 12,000 pages of government emails and internal documents.

I've also been following changes to how the census will ask about race (people who identify as black and/or white will be asked to specify their non-Hispanic origins) and relationships between people in the same household (there are new categories for same-sex and opposite-sex couples).

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UPDATE 11:58 A.M. Thanks for your questions! Hansi is signing off, but please keep your questions about the 2020 census coming.

Email him at hwang@npr.org, and follow him on Twitter @hansilowang.

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Bill would keep Trump off 2020 NJ ballot unless he releases his tax returns

Posted: 21 Feb 2019 07:45 AM PST