cause minority communities to be undercounted.The coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups is seeking the documents to help assess how complete and accurate the nation's once-a-decade head count was.
By working toward a year-end deadline, the Census Bureau was giving its statistician only half the time originally planned for crunching the numbers — a timeframe that critics say is too short to do an adequate job, especially given hurdles created by the pandemic.The census helps determine how many congressional seats each state gets in a process known as apportionment, as well as the distribution of $1.5 trillion in federal spending.Trump administration attorneys said in court papers that they've already turned over large numbers of.