[NAACP\2020 Census]
Joining forces with WeTV, CBS, and a host of notable influencers to push out PSAs that highlight the importance of the Census, the NAACP is taking a robust approach to reach audiences that have historically been overlooked and undercounted.
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[2020 Census\Pacific Islanders]
Speaker after speaker addressed the battle to distinguish Pacific Islander identity and “disaggregating” it from its current place as a subset of the Asian American population in the census.
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[2020 Census\African-Americans]
Urban League’ Morial: If Black people are undercounted by 1.7 million, as many forecasts predict, it will cost states 3.4 billion dollars a year…I can’t overstate how important it is for Black Americans to participate in the Census.”
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[#BronxCounts Challenge\2020 Census]
Bronx Borough President Diaz: “We want to get our youth involved, so that they can help to educate their families and their community about why The Bronx needs to have a strong showing in the Census.”
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[New York News\2020 Census]
Senator Zellnor Y. Myrie: “As we and 33 other elected officials warned in our September letter to the Governor, a potential undercount poses a grave risk to the rights, livelihood and wellbeing of millions of people in Brooklyn and across the state. Yet we have seen no sign of the release of this money, no timeline, and no plan. This is unacceptable. The census gets closer every day and the time to act is now.”
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[Census 2020]
The census determines how more than $650 billion in federal funds for public education, public housing, roads and bridges, and more, are distributed annually throughout the country, as well as the number of seats each state is allocated in the House of Representatives (and thus, the Electoral College). Another undercount (like in 2010) could cost the State of New York up to two congressional seats, emphasizing the importance of a complete and accurate count of New York City.
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[2020 Census\Republican Fraud]
Missouri Congressman Clay: “First, the Trump Administration tried to rig the 2020 Census with a racist citizenship question to intentionally increase the undercount of non-white persons. And now, they send an “imitation census” mailing to confuse Americans while trying to raise money for the President’s reelection. With every action, this president and his enablers show their complete contempt for the truth, the rule of law and the Constitution.”
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[City Hall\Census 2020]
NYC Council Speaker Corey Johnson on funding community groups to get a correct 2020 Census count: “A complete count will send a strong message to the Trump Administration that New York is not invisible and not intimidated by the president’s attacks on our diverse communities.”
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[Census\Immigration]
Attorney General James: “The United States Constitution is crystal clear that every person residing in this country at the time of the decennial census — regardless of legal status — must be counted, and no matter what President Trump says, or Alabama does, that fact will never change.
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[New York News]
Governor Cuomo and Letitia James denounce Trump’s continued attempts to add citizenship question to 2020 Census…
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