Hansi Lo Wang
Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) is a national correspondent for NPR reporting on the people, power and money behind the U.S. census.
Wang was the first journalist to uncover plans by former President Donald Trump's administration to end 2020 census counting early.
Wang's coverage of the administration's failed push for a census citizenship question earned him the American Statistical Association's Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award. He received a National Headliner Award for his reporting from the remote village in Alaska where the 2020 count officially began.
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The census helps guide an estimated $1.5 trillion a year in federal funding to local communities. Some are worried they were undercounted in 2020 and won't get their fair share for the next decade. -
As the holiday weekend approaches, New Yorkers are waiting a long time to get tested for COVID-19. The nation's biggest city is confronting a record high number of cases.
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While the Census Bureau's set to have its first director who's Latinx, an NPR analysis finds people of color are underrepresented in the top rank of civil servants at the country's main data producer. -
Growing numbers of Latinos turned a mysterious census category into the country's second-largest racial group. Researchers say that makes it harder to address racial inequities over the next decade. -
Investigations into former President Donald Trump's family business by the Manhattan district attorney and the New York state attorney general are still underway, and more indictments may be coming. -
Genetic ancestry tests, changes to how census responses were categorized and more children born to parents who identify with different racial groups led to a 276% jump in the multiracial population. -
The white population is still the largest racial group in the U.S. Whether it is declining depends on how you define "white." Narrow definitions, researchers warn, can be misleading and dangerous.
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New census results show growing numbers of people in the U.S. identify with more than one race. As the country becomes more multiracial, the Census Bureau is rethinking how it explains diversity.
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Growing numbers of people in the U.S. are reporting on census forms that they identify with more than one racial group. But they're often hidden in breakdowns of the country's demographics.
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No census has been perfect. COVID-19, Trump officials' interference and the Census Bureau's new privacy protections have raised concerns about the reliability of demographic data from the 2020 count.
