Tim Henderson

Tim Henderson

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Tim Henderson covers demographics for Stateline. He has been a reporter at the Miami Herald, the Cincinnati Enquirer and The Journal News in suburban New York. Henderson became fascinated with census data in the early 1990s, when AOL offered the first computerized reports. Since then he has broken stories about population trends in South Florida, including a housing affordability analysis included in the 2007 Pulitzer-winning series "House of Lies" for the Miami Herald, and a prize-winning analysis of public pension irregularities for The Journal News. He has been a member and trainer for the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting since its inception 20 years ago, specializing in online data access and visualization along with demographics.

Analysis: Trump deportations near 1M, but few are criminals
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Analysis: Trump deportations near 1M, but few are criminals

Oct 22, 2026
Tim Henderson
The current Trump administration claims its mass deportation efforts have expelled nearly a million people through July of this year, but those include both voluntary returns and people turned around at the border, according to a new analysis by the...
Nine states shed jobs in the past year
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9 states shed jobs in the past year

Oct 20, 2026
Tim Henderson
Nine states and the District of Columbia lost jobs in the year ending in September, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Hit hard by the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal workforce, the...
New home completions are stuck at 2020 levels
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New home completions are stuck at 2020 levels

Oct 20, 2026
Tim Henderson
Single-family home completions remain stuck at early pandemic levels as of September as costs, labor supply shortages and high interest take a toll on home builders, especially in the Northeast and South. Apartment building was a more mixed picture, down...
Data centers are now the largest financial bet in US history
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Data centers are now the largest financial bet in US history

Oct 16, 2026
Tim Henderson
The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures. Until now, no industry had driven the U.S. economy with such force since the railroad...
Powered by spikes in energy prices, inflation surges to 3.7% in last report before midterm elections
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Powered by spikes in energy prices, inflation surges to 3.7%

Oct 14, 2026
Tim Henderson
Inflation grew to a 3.7% annual rate in September, according to an Oct. 14 report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, up from 3.4% in August. In the last consumer price inflation report before midterm elections, with voters already...
Measles cases reach 4,080 for the year — the highest in decades
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Measles cases reach 4,080 for the year — the highest in decades

Oct 09, 2026
Tim Henderson
Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths in Pennsylvania, as the federal government steps in with financial help for states but also fans vaccination fears and skepticism...
Aging workforce, immigration crackdown are depleting skilled workers
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Aging workforce, immigration crackdown are depleting skilled workers

Oct 08, 2026
Tim Henderson
A perfect storm of harsh immigration enforcement, aging journeymen and a building boom for data centers is wreaking havoc on the nation’s supply of skilled trade workers. Automakers and construction contractors say they need more access to workers through accelerated...
Hiring slows in September with job growth of 29K
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Hiring slows in September with job growth of 29K

Oct 02, 2026
Tim Henderson
Jobs across the United States rose by 29,000 in September, a disappointing result as recent growth was also revised down in Friday’s monthly jobs report, the last one before midterm elections. September growth was a large dip from a strong...
Supreme Court will consider Trump’s mandatory immigrant detention policy
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Supreme Court will consider Trump’s mandatory immigrant detention policy

Oct 01, 2026
Tim Henderson
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear a case challenging a Trump administration policy that threatens millions of immigrants with mandatory and indefinite detention while fighting their court cases. The policy, put into place in July 2025, requires...
Sanctuary policies are keeping prisoners in local jails away from ICE
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Sanctuary policies are keeping prisoners in local jails away from ICE

Aug 24, 2026
Tim Henderson
As more states seek ways to limit immigration enforcement, a Stateline analysis shows one tactic has had an effect: making it more difficult for local law enforcement to hand over people they are holding in city or county jails to...
Trump vaccine order takes aim at states that limit exemptions
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Trump vaccine order takes aim at states that limit exemptions

Aug 12, 2026
Tim Henderson
A largely overlooked part of the executive order President Donald Trump issued this week scaling back the schedule for childhood vaccines threatens legal action against the four states that don’t allow personal or religious exemptions to school vaccine requirements. Those...
With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests
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With new tactics, ICE reaches new high in monthly arrests

Aug 10, 2026
Tim Henderson
Federal immigration agents are employing new tactics — from arresting academics at airports to setting up a checkpoint at a popular creek in a National Forest — to boost their arrest numbers, leading to more arrests in July than in...