Missing People: How an inaccurate census affected by COVID-19 will hurt communities of color
By Aggie Yellow Horse, Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and Justice and Social Inquiry, Arizona State University Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Census Bureau is having a harder time than in the past counting all Americans, and is now saying its workers will spend less time trying to count everyone. In August, the Trump administration announced the plan to end the 2020 Census count a month early, on September 30 instead of October 31. With about a month left before that new end date, fewer than two-thirds of U.S. households have been counted so far. The...
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