Civil rights groups and local governments sued over concerns a shortened census would lead to an undercount, especially in communities of color.
ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and ordered the once-a-decade head count of every U.S. resident to continue for another month through the end of October, saying a shortened schedule likely would produce inaccurate results.
Koh said inaccuracies produced from a shortened schedule would affect the distribution of federal funding and political representation. The census is used to determine how $1.5 trillion in federal spending is distributed each year and how many congressional seats each state gets.Census 2020 employees help residents fill out the 2020 census form at Sylvia's Restaurant in New York City's Harlem.
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