2020 Census National Tele-Town Hall To Prevent An Undercount

By National Urban League
Published03 PM EST, Sat Nov 23, 2024
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Written by Marc Morial, on BET.com

The 2020 Census could fail to count more than four million people, most of them Black and Latino.

An undercount of people of color means political influence will drain from already underrepresented diverse communities into predominantly white communities. An unfair census will deprive communities of color of hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding for programs like Head Start, WIC and Healthy Baby programs, Medicare, Section 8, Pell Grants and infrastructure.

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