The community surrounding the Census Bureau is concerned about the disbanding of the bureau's external advisory groups.

it effectively blocked communities like Westfield from receiving the temporary Census Bureau employees they already paid for. “Trust me, I worked 30 years in the Marine Corps. I’ve seen the ...

Some towns paid the U.S. Census Bureau to produce new local population counts to try to get more funding. But Trump's hiring freeze derailed their special census plans — and could hurt the 2030 count.

The City of Westfield is currently down almost $2 million meant to pay for a 2025 special census — and the city’s mayor is placing blame on President Donald Trump’s hiring freeze of federal ...

After Trump issued a memorandum in January restricting the federal government from hiring civilian employees, Corbitt says the bureau told local officials they had to pause their special census ...