I was out this morning feeding, and a car pulled up in front of my late landlady's home. I asked if she needed help. She was a census taker following up on a couple of addresses on MLK road. I told her about Eliza, and that the next home was a Native American. We have helpful people, when I got back in the car another person stopped and asked if I had told the census taker about Eliza. As I said, helpful people.
The NYT has a a reassuring piece on the impact of the census undercount. It looks like it won't be as bad as feared, and is liable to hit red states predominantly. The thing to watch is what the admin does with the Census Bureau's numbers before delivering them to Congress.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/09/23/opinion/trump-census-2020.html
A census worker was in my neighborhood this week. She came and asked me about a few of my neighbors - are they snowbirds, are they home in the afternoon? (She had her census worker badge prominently displayed.) She said they are working hard to try and get everyone counted! I expressed my gratitude and thanked her profusely for taking on the job!!!
@lovendures. I did mine online too.
@lowtide It is a very hard job to do. We have to deal with a lot of personalities. At this point, the census bureau does not need any names. They just need to know how many people live at a household. I feel like the census will be shortlisted this year and will affect services like schools and senior centers which need the census information for funding.
The census officially ended on October 15th, and overall, it was a disaster. Many people were not counted since the job had to be done by a deadline. This will have consequences in the next few years.