The 2020 census undercounted Black, Latino and Indigenous populations while overcounting white and Asian people, according to estimates from a U.S. Census Bureau report.
means many vulnerable groups could still be left out, altering the resources these communities receive and the power they wield.
In 2020, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to stop gathering census information early. The bureau argued it wanted to stop the count so it could start processing the data to meet a Dec. 31 deadline, set in federal law, for reporting the results to the president and the states. Data from the sample survey also suggested the non-Hispanic white population and the Asian population were over-counted, and the difference in over-counting between 2010 and 2020 was statistically significant.
The data crunched by the bureau illustrates the racial makeup of America and helps determine the distribution of federal aid and how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, among other things.
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