Census day has arrived to a nation nearly paralyzed by the coronavirus, but U.S. officials vow the once-a-decade count will be completed by the end of the year.
“We are laser-focused on the statute’s Dec. 31 deadline for apportionment counts and population counts. We will continue to assess all of our operations to see if there are any changes that need to be made,” Michael Cook, chief of the Public Information Office at the U.S. Census Bureau, said Tuesday.
The U.S. Census Bureau is spending $500 million on outreach efforts, including advertising, and it’s relying on more than 300,000 nonprofits, businesses, local governments and civic groups to encourage participation in their communities. Those efforts have been hamstrung by the nationwide shutdown.Groups are switching to digital efforts to get out the word.
Most of the census takers won’t be sent out until late May to knock on the doors of homes where people haven’t yet answered the questions online, by telephone or by mailing back a paper questionnaire. Until then, the Census Bureau is pushing people to answer the questions so they won’t have anyone knocking on their doors in late spring and summer.
The 2020 census will help determine how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes each state gets, as well as the distribution of some $1.5 trillion in federal spending.
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