Updated at 8:25 p.m. ET
The U.S. Census Bureau has determined it cannot put together the first set of results from this year’s census by its Dec. 31 deadline. The bureau says it needs to resolve routine “processing anomalies.”
So, the bureau is looking toward Jan. 26 as a new target date, according to a bureau employee who learned about the shift during an internal meeting Thursday and spoke to NPR on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation in the workplace.
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