'Money and Power': Fearing an undercount, states and cities pour millions into 2020 census

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'Money and Power': Fearing an undercount, states and cities pour millions into 2020 census
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The Census Bureau has assured critics that the 2020 census is 'on track, on budget and on time.' But fearing an undercount, states and cities are pouring millions into it.

— particularly black and Latino Americans — are at risk of not being counted in the 2020 census, putting resources in jeopardy for those communities.

"If there is an undercount, of those who were uncounted, it will cost the state $1,000 every year [per person undercounted] for the next 10 years," she said. “There was a heavily politicized environment this time, and it helped that we were in good economic times." Joe Dorman, a former Oklahoma state representative and CEO of the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy, told NBC News that the state has a history of undercounts, and having no state dollars forcounting its residents could put the state in a financial crunch.

Democratic nominee for Oklahoma Governor, Representative Joe Dorman, speaks to a room of supporters in Oklahoma City after losing to Republican Mary Fallin on Nov. 4, 2014.of the 2010 census and as a result, states missed out on at least $550 million a year in various federal funds, according to research by Count All Kids, a census advocacy group.

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