Twenty days from now, the U.S. Census Bureau will stop its count of people living in America, and there are good reasons to think that the results will be at best incomplete—and at worst a miscount that will warp politics and government for the next decade
Twenty days from now, the U.S. Census Bureau will stop its once-in-a-decade count of people living in America, and there are good reasons to think that the results will be at best incomplete—and at worst a miscount that will warp American politics and government for the next decade.
What could go wrong? How is this year’s census shaping up differently than past counts? And what are the short- and long-term effects of everything we’re about to encounter? To sort through it all, POLITICO spoke with Frey on Thursday. A transcript of that conversation is below, condensed and edited for length and clarity.You've studied the census. You’re a demographer. Walk us through how a census normally works, and how the pandemic has changed the way the census is working this year.
Under normal circumstances, they would have begun that clean-up at the end of July. But in April, they decided that they had to push back everything because of the pandemic: Rather than have the NRFU go from mid-May to the end of July, they shifted it to go from mid-August until the end of October.
People who previously worked at the Census Bureau — including four prior Census directors under both Democratic and Republican administrations — have come out and said it’s not a good idea.
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