{"id":7895,"date":"2022-04-11T22:29:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/census-operations-shortened-by-one-month\/"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T22:29:19","slug":"census-operations-shortened-by-one-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/census-operations-shortened-by-one-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Census Operations Shortened by One Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In early August the federal government\u00a0withdrew a request to lengthen the amount of time for Census data collection. \u00a0Due to COVID-19, the timeline was extended to October 31<sup>st<\/sup>\u00a0and now is proposed to end on September 30<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 Constitutionally mandated, the census count happens every ten years.\u00a0\u00a0Cutting short the time for data collection\u00a0means that customary outreach by Census workers will not be complete. Aa a result, fewer children, BIPOC people, low-income or people living unsheltered are less likely to be counted.\u00a0 Incomplete or inaccurate data collection potentially will negatively impact\u00a0the accuracy of the number of seats each state has in the U.S. House of Representatives, the\u00a0distribution of\u00a0billions of dollars\u00a0in federal funds to local communities.\u00a0and research that relies on Census data.<\/p>\n<p>Currently more than a third of households have not responded to the Census, and the response rate in census tracts with kids at high risk of being missed lags the nation by almost 15 percentage points. Cutting short the time period when census takers knock on doors is a specific tactic not to have all U.S. residents be captured in Census data.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the issue:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.censuscounts.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.censuscounts.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few recent news articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/04\/us\/2020-census-ending-early.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/04\/us\/2020-census-ending-early.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/30\/896656747\/when-does-census-counting-end-bureau-sends-alarming-mixed-signals\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/07\/30\/896656747\/when-does-census-counting-end-bureau-sends-alarming-mixed-signals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proposal will negatively impact children, BIPOC people, and people who are low-income and\/or living unsheltered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partnersforourchildren.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}