James Spader
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I haven’t filled out a census since the 90s. Lol.The coronavirus is upending the 2020 census, disrupting an already fragile operation that facedimmense challenges in counting minority populations and other groups in the US before the outbreak of a global pandemic.
Americans started receiving invitations to respond to the census online, an option never offered before, or by phone on 12 March, just as governors and mayors started shutting down businesses and telling people to stay home.
While the US Census Bureau is already delaying some of its operations, the US constitution mandates a decennial census and it cannot be cancelled.
Federal law also sets 1 April as census day – the date at which the government must try to get as accurate a count of the US population as possible.
There are certain populations already vulnerable to going undercounted in the census, including minorities, immigrants and the poor. The outbreak will make it even harder, especially if the government is forced to scale back critical door-to-door operations to count people later this year............
Coronavirus upends US census as bureau looks to save official count
Covid-19 is threatening the critical door-to-door operations that it takes to pull off the 1 April count of the US populationwww.theguardian.com