{"id":3734,"date":"2020-11-02T12:52:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3734"},"modified":"2020-11-02T12:52:37","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T12:52:37","slug":"how-the-2020-census-struggled-to-overcome-trump-to-get-an-accurate-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3734","title":{"rendered":"How the 2020 census struggled to overcome Trump to get an accurate count"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Between budget cuts, politics, and the pandemic, the 2020 census \u2014 an already complex and massive undertaking \u2014 has been more difficult to pull off. Experts have been warning for years that the 2020 census is underfunded to the point that it could affect its accuracy<\/a>. This underfunding predates<\/a> Trump\u2019s presidency, but Trump hasn\u2019t helped<\/a> matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had a pandemic like this; we\u2019ve never had a political climate this bad,\u201d Romalewski said. \u201cIn some ways, it\u2019s impressive that we\u2019ve even gotten to this level. But we know that in 2010, even with a higher self-response rate, there were still problems<\/a> with the accuracy, the count, as far as certain population groups go. So despite the challenges, we still need to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump was determined<\/a> to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the justification for which remained elusive \u2014 which was why the Supreme Court struck it down<\/a>. But Trump\u2019s push for it still discouraged many undocumented immigrants<\/a> from responding. Their undocumented status could also mean they don\u2019t show up in the administrative records the Bureau will use to fill in the numbers of people who weren\u2019t counted by enumerators or self-responses.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.vox.com\/recode\/2020\/9\/25\/21453207\/what-is-2020-census-online-coronavirus-covid-deadline-ruling<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Between budget cuts, politics, and the pandemic, the 2020 census \u2014 an already complex and massive undertaking \u2014 has been more difficult to pull off. Experts have been warning for years that the 2020 census is underfunded to the point that it could affect its accuracy. This underfunding predates Trump\u2019s presidency, but Trump hasn\u2019t helped matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had a pandemic like this; we\u2019ve never had a political climate this bad,\u201d Romalewski said. \u201cIn some ways, it\u2019s impressive that we\u2019ve even gotten to this level. But we know that in 2010, even with a higher self-response rate, there were still problems with the accuracy, the count, as far as certain population groups go. So despite the challenges, we still need to do better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump was determined to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census, the justification for which remained elusive \u2014 which was why the Supreme Court struck it down. But Trump\u2019s push for it still discouraged many undocumented immigrants from responding. Their undocumented status could also mean they don\u2019t show up in the administrative records the Bureau will use to fill in the numbers of people who weren\u2019t counted by enumerators or self-responses.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[477,221,170],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-census","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3735,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}