2020 US Census still underway, will impact local communities

It’s been around since 1790 and is part of the United States constitution.

Every ten years, the US government is required, by law, to take a census of all citizens living in the USA.

To get started.

It been around since at least 17-90 and is part of the u-s constitution.

Every ten years the census takes place and it can determine whether or not you see more or less growth in your community.fox 55 caleb saylor is live in fort wayne to explain the importance of filling out the 20-20 census.caleb?so far this year, just over 67 percent of hoosier and ohio households have completed the census which is just a little short of the response in 20-10.

If you have completed the cense just yet, you encouraged to because it could negatively impact your communit.

If you don the cens just a government effort to count the number people who live in our communities every ten years.

It can impact whether a community can grow and voices can be heard quinton dixie with the fort wayne urban league says resources available to them would be impacted if the community doesn have a total count of how many people live there.

F a community is unde counted, that means it going to be underfinanced as well.

So, one of the reasons we continue to push people to take part in the census is so that we can get an accurate count and also get the resources we need to take care of our communities.

Financing comes from congress, who allocates money based on census data.

More people mean more money.

Tim swarens with the s census bureau says it not just social services thatl be impacted by an undercount.

Ery important local programs, roads, healthcare, education, all sorts of social services are funded, in part, by money that is distributed based on census data.

School could receive less government funding and your roads could be worse off due to lack of funds because of an under count.

Not only that, the 435 us house of representative seats are allocated by state population from the census data meaning your political voice could become softer if everyone in the stat counted tates that are either stagnant or losing population are at risk of losing us house seats.

Surface it may just seem like some required by law, the us census information does trickle down into our communithe more people we can get involved by sending in a copy themselves or going online and filing the census report, the better off wel be.

Now the original deadline to respond was last friday, but covid-19 has caused problems, so that has been extended to allow people more time to respond either online, over the phone, or mail.

And starting next week, census takers will be allowed to go door-to-door in the fort wayne area to households that have sure the count is as accurate as possible.reporting live in fort wayne, caleb saylor fox 55 news.

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