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The 2010 Census is coming! Will you stand up and be counted?
Every missing black person translates to a loss of roughly $13,000 in federal dollars for his community until the next census in 2020. This is a lot of money. On the 2010 Census you only need to answer ten easy questions to earn that money for your community. Will you stand up and be counted?
Blacks have lower income, less wealth and higher poverty rates than whites. On top of all of this the black completion rate of the 2000 Census was lower than the white completion rate. This means that poorer black communities lose out on desperately needed federal dollars.
On the 2000 Census, my predominantly black community had a completion rate of about 65 percent. The predominantly white community nearby had a completion rate of over 80 percent. My community probably lost out on federal funds. (Check the participation rate of your community here.)
If you are not counted by the government, not only does your community lose money, you are more easily ignored and neglected. Political representation in the U.S. House of Representatives is determined by the census counts. Entrepreneurs determine where to locate businesses based on census data. Public policies and social programs are created based on census data. If you are not counted you are more likely to be ignored.
Will you stand up and be counted?
Algernon Austin is director of the program on race, ethnicity and the economy at the Economic Policy Institute.
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2010-03-09 03:12:37
Nonetheless, I respect the sensibility of your many analysis.
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I got mine in the post today, and, really had no qualms about filling it out until I saw that they need your name, why do they need your name if its anonymous? To have it on record so that 70 years from now its part of "history" or for your "family tree?" On this one, maybe the GOP fringe is right, its not as on the up and up as they are claiming and its certainly not anonymous if they are demanding your name, and, I can see why folks don't fill it out.
And, then there is that Negro part, how vile is that in 2010? This country continues to go down the tubes on this race trash.
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