The coronavirus pandemic will delay the scheduled completion of the 2020 U.S. census. By Jeffrey MervisScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center.The coronavirus pandemic will delay collection of data from the 2020 U.S.
census now underway, the Trump administration announced yesterday. But unlike the bitterly partisan fights that have followed previous decisions by the White House affecting preparations for the decennial census, including its failed attempt to add a citizenship question, social scientists and civil rights groups say this time the administration has made the right call.“We support the decision and urge Congress to act in concert with it,” declared four former Census Bureau directors, including the two
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