Census Data Drives Apportionment of Congressional Seats

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The apportionment of seats in Congress is the Constitutional rationale for the decennial census of the �whole number of persons in each State.� A new fact sheet from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and Asian Americans Advancing Justice � AAJC shows when and how the apportionment results will be released (including the current proposed revised schedule) and who is included in the count.

Read �AN OVERVIEW OF HOW CENSUS DATA ARE USED TO APPORTION THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.�

Census Data Drives Apportionment of Congressional Seats

The apportionment of seats in Congress is the Constitutional rationale for the decennial census of the �whole number of persons in each State.� A new fact sheet from the Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality and Asian Americans Advancing Justice � AAJC shows when and how the apportionment results will be released (including the current proposed revised schedule) and who is included in the count.

Read �AN OVERVIEW OF HOW CENSUS DATA ARE USED TO APPORTION THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.�

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