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The opportunity to fill out the Census is past, and the bureau has been directed to complete the count and whatever work door-to-door canvassers can fill in by Oct. 31. Efforts to get households to fill out the Census still left many Census tracts in the orange — meaning less than 50%.
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Time may be running out in getting a complete Census count. The Trump administration can end the count early after the Supreme Court approved a request to suspend a lower court order that extended the count's schedule.
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If this is the classic game of spotting the differences between two pictures, Kansas City needs to make it much easier in the days ahead to see real progress in the response rate to the 2020 Census.
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“We’re in a desert.” Sand-colored shades in the middle of the latest map of Kansas City participation in the Census show tracts that remain below 50% — and even less than 30% in some — in the number of households that have filled out the 2020 count — putting millions of federal dollars at risk.
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The U.S. Census’ interactive Response Rates map shows that the feared undercount among Kansas City’s lower-income neighborhoods is already being established. And efforts to combat it are caught in the COVID-19 pandemic.
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If we didn’t realize the stakes before, surely we do now. The pandemic of 2020 has peeled back the scars encrusted by generations of inequity. Lessons from a virtual educators’ seminar. “What will you say you did . . .?”
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation names five reasons why the U.S. census matters more than you think, and why you should encourage everyone you know in the nation to participate before the survey closes on July 31, 2020.
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