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With the 2020 census approaching, black community leaders are brushing up on the best ways to get people counted.
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Immigrants’ rights groups wanted $40 million dollars to pay for programs and staff to help convince people in under counted communities that it is in their interest to complete the census. But they say only $20 million is was included.
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"My concern is that a lot of people who are not citizens might have been spooked by the back and forth and it is going to be very difficult for people to trust that they will not be asked (a citizenship) question."
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"No. The federal government funds the census, so there's no need for state dollars to go into the census."
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A federal judge in New York says he is not planning to rule on the allegations until after the Supreme Court's likely decision this month on the fate of the census question.
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The U.S. Census is an accounting of everyone who lives in the country. A new study from The Urban Institute, a think tank that conducts social and economic research, said the country will likely miss a lot of people, upward of 4 million of them.
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A deceased redistricting specialist's documents suggest the citizenship question was added to redraw political maps to favor Republicans and non-Hispanic white people, according to a new court filing.
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"We need to act together. This isn't a Republican or Democratic issue. This is about all of Pennsylvania."
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"There’s definitely a lack of information, lack of knowledge about census, why it’s important, let alone, going about navigating through the system."
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They are concerned the proposed change might dampen responses. The Trump administration wants to use the census to ask people if they're citizens.