Census, like Post Office, politicized in election year
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the U.S. Census Bureau
Electoral College
the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
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the Census Bureau’s
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the Commerce Department
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the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
protest.“Essentially
National Processing Center
Census Council
People
Kenneth Prewitt
Donald Trump
Thomas Saenz
Terri Ann Lowenthal
issues.“Any
Steven Murdock
George W. Bush
Margo Anderson
Ronald Reagan
Zuagar
” Zuagar
Mike Schneider
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Fla.
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Summary
The reason is obvious: The census determines not only how much federal money each state gets but also how many congressional seats and Electoral College votes.“The census was political from the very beginning and remains so,” former Census Bureau director Kenneth Prewitt wrote in an essay almost two decades ago. Throughout this year’s census, lawmakers, civil rights groups, states and cities have been engaged in a battle with President Donald Trump’s administration as it unsuccessfully tried to add a citizenship question; filled three top positions with political appointees who have limited experience; and issued a directive to exclude residents living illegally in the country when drawing congressional districts. “It was a bald political attack on the agency.”Johnny Zuagar, whose union represents career workers at the Census Bureau, said the debate over the agency’s politicization overlooks the hard work that rank-and-file employees are putting in, day after day, to get an accurate head count.
As said here by MIKE SCHNEIDER