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Student voices: GAO estimates this will be most expensive census

by Nicholas Harvey May 10, 2020August 25, 2020

…estimate for the 2020 Census is a per household cost of $121.30. (The census is conducted on the scale of households, not individuals). The 2020 Census Lifecycle Cost Estimate Executive…

Posted inCalifornia Currents

Counting all kids for census a new challenge under COVID-19 stay-at-home order

by Zaidee Stavely April 15, 2020May 19, 2020

…populations that have been most undercounted in past censuses. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates about 210,000 children under 5 years old in California were left uncounted in the 2010 census. More census…

Posted inEquity Ripples, Local News, Youth Voices

Student Voices: Many teens unaware of pending 2020 census

by Shruthi Narayanan May 9, 2020August 25, 2020

…even a fight.” To learn more about resources in this story, go to: https://people.howstuffworks.com/census.htm, https://www.ichabodcrane.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2020-Census-Stats-in-Schools.pdf and https://www.census.gov/partners/toolkit.pdf. Shruthi Narayanan is a sophomore and staff writer on her school newspaper, “The…

Posted inEquity Ripples, Local News, Youth Voices

Student Voices: Census takers on front line of decennial count

by Clara Stevenson May 11, 2020August 25, 2020

…complete the census. Those people are known traditionally as census takers, although today’s official job title is enumerators. They are sent to households where people haven’t filled out the census…

Posted inCalifornia Currents

Infants, toddlers the most undercounted in census; state wants to change that

by Zaidee Stavely May 11, 2019May 7, 2019

…local governments also use the counts for planning purposes. Census officials have identified the census tracts where fewer households filled out the census form in the past and those with populations at…

Posted inLocal News

Counting contest: Mayors of Oakland, Richmond wager on census response rate

by Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation July 12, 2020July 10, 2020

…to fill out the census form — and to make sure they’re holding up OK, Schaaf said. “It really became census-plus,” she said. “And to have neighbors calling neighbors is…

Posted inEquity Ripples

Census aims to adapt as results affected by everything from pandemic to politics

by Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation October 23, 2020October 22, 2020

…for in the 2020 U.S. Census. The Census Bureau stopped its non-response follow-up operations on Oct. 15 after the U.S. Supreme Court granted a request by the administration of President…

Posted inEquity Ripples, Local News

Groups working hard to make sure Asian population counted in 2020 census

by Kiley Russell, Bay City News Foundation March 12, 2020May 19, 2020

…the census and being the most distrustful of the census,” said Jonathan Stein, staff attorney and program manager for voting rights and the census at Asian Americans Advancing Justice –…

Posted inCalifornia Currents

For ‘hard-to-count’ California, 2020 census poses huge challenges, carries big stakes

by Martha Groves and CALmatters May 7, 2019May 6, 2019

…fears that the information would be used for immigration enforcement. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, who oversees the Census Bureau, says he wants to add a census question on immigration to…

Posted inCalifornia Currents, Featured News

Coronavirus, citizenship and the census: California fears an undercount

by Elizabeth Castillo, CalMatters and CALmatters March 18, 2020May 19, 2020

…homes. Census workers are still scheduled to visit homes in late May, and online census operations continue. Nationwide, more than 11 million households had responded to the census as of…

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