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Current Census Project Update
Policy mostly overtook funding as a focus for census issues in August. While the House passed census funding for Fiscal Year 2021 as part of a minibus package at the end of last month, the Senate Appropriations Committee has not moved forward on any of their appropriations legislation. With the looming end of the current fiscal year, Congress will likely need to agree upon a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the federal government by the end of September. (Read more)
Blogs
September 17, 2020 – New Technical Report Estimates Impact of Different Deadlines for the 2020 Census
September 16, 2020 – GAO Warns That Compressing Census Timeframes Risks an Accurate Count
September 15, 2020 – Bipartisan Bill introduced in U.S. Senate to Extend 2020 Census Statutory Deadlines and Operations
September 10, 2020 – Next Census Scientific Advisory Committee Meeting is September 17-18
September 3, 2020 – Republican Congresswoman Speaks Out Against a Rushed 2020 Census
August 31, 2020 – Republican Congressman Opposes Rushed Completion of 2020 Census
August 27, 2020 – Efforts to #SavetheCensus
Press Releases
August 11, 2020 – U.S. Business Community Opposes Rushing the 2020 Census: 87 organizations and companies urge Congress to extend deadlines
August 6, 2020 – Nearly 900 National and Community Organizations Call on Senate to Extend Census Deadline
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
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