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Current Census Project Update
The White House released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 budget request on February 10, 2020. The 2020 Census will wrap up in FY 2021 and funding normally drops precipitously in year 1 of the decennial cycle, reflected in the White House’s request. The Administration asked for $1,392,709,000 for the Periodic Censuses and Programs account, and $279,268,000 for the Current Surveys and Programs account, with $1,671,977,000 for the Census Bureau overall. (Read more)
Blogs
April 1, 2020 – Predicting What You’ll See from 2020 Census Results
March 30, 2020 – Schatz-Smith letter to CJS re. FY21 Census Funding
March 26, 2020 – New Research Focused on the High Net Undercount of Young Black Children in the Census
March 25, 2020 – Schatz Open Letter re. 2020 Census self-response
March 18, 2020 – Tracking Progress on the 2020 Census in “Real Time”
Press Releases
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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