Introduction

Every ten years, the federal government attempts to count every single person living in the united states. The data is used to determine what the population looks like in terms of income and occupation. And that's how we determine all sorts of things like redistricting and federal funding. But as shareene would have said, ter is complicated to break down what these numbers do and don't tell us. We decided to hit up hanse lo wang, a correspondent on m p r's national desk. He's our resident census expert. Oh, and i should say also, you are a co switch o g, back before we even co switch.