Steven Dillingham announced Monday his plan to resign as director of the U.S. Census Bureau when the new administration takes control of the government.
The 2020 census was supposed to end at an earlier date this year after the White House said the Census Bureau should "wind down" operations for certain groups, but a federal judge's order blocked this plan.
The COVID-19 pandemic has added one more challenge now that different community groups are not able to meet face-to-face to deal with questions regarding the 2020 census.
Has the population scale of the United States reached the minority tipping point? The National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau differ in their assessments, so the nation remains unsure whether the birth rate of minorities has finally surpassed the bith rate of whites in America.
