not all dogs are good dogs !⃝ 𝗢𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗲.

As we head into a 4wk pause on in-house dining, MN restaurants need our help - now more than ever. Order take-out from your favorite restaurant if you can. It makes a difference to the businesses & workers who make our hospitality industry world-class. #GetTakeoutMN #OnlyinMN

The Census Bureau plans to announce it will miss a year-end deadline for handing in numbers used for divvying up congressional seats. mprnews.org/story/2020/12/…

4. NEW: Census Bureau confirms it will miss the Dec. 31 deadline for the first 2020 census results and says it plans to deliver "a complete & accurate state population count for apportionment in early 2021, as close to the statutory deadline as possible" census.gov/newsroom/press…

BREAKING: Trump's Census Bureau Director Steven Dillingham is stepping down on Jan. 20, months before the end of his term, after whistleblowers complained he was pushing for "statistically indefensible" data. My report (confirming Tierney Sneed scoop): npr.org/2021/01/18/957…

What generation controls the U.S. Senate? #dataviz Source: reddit.com/r/dataisbeauti…

Sen. Bernie Sanders on his Inauguration Day meme fame: “It makes people aware that we make good mittens in Vermont.”

BREAKING: The 2020 census results used to determine each state’s share of votes in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College for the next 10 years are now expected to be released on April 30, Census Bureau official Kathleen Styles announced during NCSL webinar

NEW: Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, tells me the Census Bureau "should take all the time it needs" to report accurate 2020 census results and he'll work with the bureau on a new Senate bill that extends legal reporting deadlines. My updated story: npr.org/2021/01/27/961…

Life expectancy in the U.S. fell by a full year in the first half of 2020. It was the largest drop since World War II and the first full picture of the deadly consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. nyti.ms/3jZ3G3G

I wrote about how as few as 26 people in census numbers can determine how much influence your state has in Congress and in picking future presidents for a decade npr.org/2021/05/01/991…

Sweet cheebus.

Without any planning, the Mall of America has been converted into offices for the MN State Demographic Center.

BREAKING: Redistricting data from the 2020 census will be released on Aug. 12, the Census Bureau says, after months of delays caused by the pandemic and Trump officials’ interference with the count’s schedule x.com/uscensusbureau…

The U.S. Census Bureau released redistricting data today! Our office has reformatted the most-requested data into easy-to-use CSV files, so that #mnleg and others in MN can use the data for redistricting work. Tell us what you are using #2020Census data for? mn.gov/admin/demograp…

Within weeks, I think Mississsippi will top US states on per capita covid mortality, leapfrogging Mass., NY, NJ. The states in the northeast experienced profound mortality in 2020 before the vaccine was available. So much mortality so deep into vax's availability, is our shame.

Chart: International refugee crises, 1960-present Already, 9% of Ukraine's pre-war population has fled to another country. That's more than 3.7 million people, the sixth-greatest upheaval in absolute numbers in the past 60+ years. pewrsr.ch/3NmJiaP

Last week I wrote a letter to the The New York Times responding to their April 22 article on census error and disclosure control. I guess they declined to publish it, so here it is. 1/2

In the US there are about 122 women for every 100 men among college graduates in the age range 25-34. After increasing for more than 40 years, the number peaked in 2010 at 129.