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The U.S. Census Bureau will not release one-year estimates for the 2020 American Communities Survey due to high coronavirus-related nonresponse rates leading to skewed data, according to a new report from USAFacts. The decision not to release survey estimates means missing out on crucial data such as health insurance changes, rent increases and eviction moratoriums' effectiveness are harder to pinpoint. The ACS is a focused questionnaire provided to a sample of 3 million people that covers everything from housing situation to work hours to type of transportation and more. The annual survey provides data used by local, state and federal...

Jeffrey Anderson of the NRO health care blog Critical Condition points out an error in the Congressional Budget Office's estimates of how many Americans are uninsured: "By all accounts, the Congressional Budget Office is using the Census Bureau's tallies for the number of uninsured, but the CBO doesn't appear to have read the full Census report. In the very same document in which the now-famous number of 46 million uninsured appears, the Census admits that this number includes roughly 9 million people on Medicaid who were falsely recorded as uninsured. The CBO is not adjusting for this Medicaid undercount. Therefore,...

Anushka Figueroa recently decided to make a change. She gave up her life in California's Silicon Valley and headed to Phoenix to work in marketing. The 37-year-old, originally from Puerto Rico, said she was searching for a better quality of life. Her new home, she says, offers all the benefits that California did when her family moved there in the '70s. "California became too expensive," she said, "and Phoenix has advanced dramatically. It is the best decision I have ever made, and I would not go back." An influx of Hispanics such as Figueroa has reshaped many urban areas' demographics;...