Updates

Plan to shorten census deadline sounds alarm for disadvantaged Americans

The Census Bureau will end its efforts to count every living person in the US a month earlier than expected, a move that will probably lead to an undercount of communities of color, poorer Americans and other hard-to-count groups.  Such an undercount would be catastrophic for those communities. The numbers from the census, which happens every 10 years, are used to determine how nearly $1.5tn in federal funds get allocated and how electoral districts are drawn for the next decade.  The bureau will shorten the deadline to respond to the census by a month and will end counting on 30 September, it announced on Monday. In April, the agency said it needed until 31 October to finish the count and asked Congress to give it a four-month extension of the 31 December deadline to produce data because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

NC COUNTS COALITION RESPONDS TO THE MEMORANDUM ISSUED BY THE WHITE HOUSE CALLING FOR THE EXCLUSION OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS FROM THE CENSUS

(July 22, 2020) – NC Counts Coalition released a statement from Executive Director Attorney Stacey Carless in response to the White House memorandum demanding the exclusion of undocumented immigrants in the Census: “The memorandum issued by the White House yesterday, calling for the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from the Census count is another attempt to politicize the Census.

Black Census Week aims to increase North Carolina's response rate

"More than 55 programs in North Carolina are funded by the federal government, and unless every citizens in our state is counted, those programs won't be fully funded for the next 10 years." 

Who Gets A Coronavirus Vaccine May Depend On The 2020 Census

"This year, getting an accurate count of the US population by the December 31 deadline might be much harder because of the coronavirus. If people don't participate, then they're at risk of getting less vaccine"

NC Counts Coalition commemorates National Census Day

N.C. Falls Behind National Census Response Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

RALEIGH, N.C. The U.S. Census is taking measures to make sure workers and the public are safe during the COVID-19 pandemic, canceling all face to face contact. That means responses to the letters sent out in the mail, online, and by phone are more important now than ever.

NC Counts Coalition Census Day Virtual Press Conference and Day Party

April 1, 2020 is National Census Day! Join NC Counts Colaition for a virtual press conference on the current state of the Census in North Carolina as we commemorate 2020 Census day. Following the press conference, NC Counts Coalition will host a virtual ‘Census Day Party’. 

Response Rate Map Shows Data for Your Community

The 2020 Census response rate map shows how cities and towns across the country are now responding. The map will be updated daily around 3 p.m. for everyone to see the response rate in their area and compare it to other areas across the nation. The map also shows the comparable response rate from the 2010 Census for each geography.

2020 Census Operational Updates - March 23, 2020

On Friday, March 20, 2020, the US Census Bureau held a press briefing on additional operational updates in wake of COVID-19. Operational timeline changes include: The deadline for self-response online, by phone or by returning the paper questionnaire has been extended to August 14 (from July 31).  The Update/Leave operation, which is the hand-delivery of census packets to about 6.2 million primarily rural households, plus most (not all) American Indian reservations, is now on pause until April 1 at the earliest. Group Quarters and Service-based Enumeration, which is one of the operations counting people experiencing homelessness, will be delayed until late April/ early May (date TBD). 

Coronavirus is slowing down search for census workers, could make it harder to count Americans