The census
Sep. 14th, 2019 06:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tigertoyI was just listening to the news and there's an item that says the Census Bureau is behind schedule hiring workers to perform the 2020 census.
Given the Trump administration's intentions, already demonstrated with the citizenship question, to distort the census for political advantage, I am troubled that they are "behind schedule" because they don't actually want to have the workers in place to do the job right. When they are criticized in 2021 for not really counting everyone, they can plead that they did the best they could with the workforce they had.
What can citizens do to see that the census really counts everyone despite an administration that doesn't want to?
Given the Trump administration's intentions, already demonstrated with the citizenship question, to distort the census for political advantage, I am troubled that they are "behind schedule" because they don't actually want to have the workers in place to do the job right. When they are criticized in 2021 for not really counting everyone, they can plead that they did the best they could with the workforce they had.
What can citizens do to see that the census really counts everyone despite an administration that doesn't want to?