EMS reports on the race to the Aug. 14 finish line Also available in Spanish. Less than a month after the first invitations to participate in the 2020 census were mailed out, 44.8% of California’s known households have completed the questionnaire, putting...
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Census 2020
Tracking the politics of immigration reform and its intersection with human and civil rights
It’s About Power, Money & Data — California Lags Behind National Average on Census, State Director Says
Ditas Katague, Director of the California Complete Count- Census 2020 Office. Also available in Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. As of April 1, 37.9% of California’s households have filled out their census questionnaires, Ditas Katague, the...
read moreFlorida at Risk of Forgoing Billions of Census 2020-Derived Revenue — Again
Speaker Anthony Williams, Special Projects Director at Bendixen & Amandi International. Florida’s undercount in the 2010 census lost the state about $20 billion in federal dollars in the last decade, according to foundation executive Susan Racher. That...
read moreCENSUS DAY – APRIL 1 – THE DAY AMERICA TAKES ITS SELFIE
Census Day, when the United States takes its once-every-decade collective selfie, is April 1. Those who don’t include themselves in the decennial snapshot will cost themselves and their communities thousands of dollars’ worth of government tax spending --...
read morePacific Islanders Promote Their Own Identity in 2020 Census – Separate from Wider Asian Category
Tauanu’u Ve’e, of the Regional Pacific Islander Task Force, stressed that it’s important for their communities that people specify their island of origin when filling out the 2020 census questionnaire. Also available in Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean....
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