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The ongoing COVThe COVID-19 crisis continued to disrupt both the regular appropriations process and the 2020 Census in June, as the national self-response rate neared 62 percent and the Census Bureau slowly restarted field operations. (Read more)
Blogs
July 29, 2020 – Congressman Cole Pleads with Indian Country to “Be a Part of the Count”
July 27, 2020 – Senator Asks for Supplemental Funds to Extend Census Bureau COVID-19 Pulse Surveys
July 24, 2020 – New GAO Report on 2020 Census COVID Risks
July 23, 2020 – Sen. Leahy Issue Brief on the Cost of Census Inaction
July 15, 2020 – House Appropriations Committee Approves Fiscal Year 2021 Census Funding Bill
July 8, 2020 – New Report on the Importance of 2020 Census Response to New York City
June 30, 2020 – Pop-Up 2020 Census Helpers in West Virginia
Press Releases
June 25, 2020 – Census Stakeholders Call on Senate to Match House Plan to Give Census $400 Million in Next COVID-19 Relief Bill
May 18, 2020 – Broad Array of Census Stakeholders Tell Congress Census Bureau Needs More Funding to Address COVID-19 Disruption
February 10, 2020 – New Study Identifies Each State’s Share of $1.5 Trillion in Annual Census-driven Federal Funding: Eleven Receive Over $40 Billion Apiece
December 17, 2019 – Final FY2020 Appropriations Legislation Includes $6.7 Billion for 2020 Census
December 9, 2019 – 200+ Organizations Implore Congress to Fully Fund the 2020 Census
November 26, 2019 – Americans Showing Higher Willingness to Be Counted in 2020 Census, But Distrust of Federal Government Creating Strong Headwinds
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