Marc Morial: “To Be Fully Treated Fairly, You’ve Got To Be Fully Counted.”
By National Urban League
Published08 AM EST, Sun Dec 22, 2024
By Mathew Peddie, www.wmfe.org
The 2020 census is almost here, and the National Urban League wants to make sure there’s a fair count.
Marc Morial, the president and CEO of the National Urban League and the former mayor of New Orleans, was in Orlando this week to talk about the census with community leaders.
“The census is about money and power,” Morial tells Intersection.
“It’s about how important programs like the food stamp program, the head start program, which serves children, community development programs, it’s based on numbers and data that comes from the census,” says Morial.
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