Liberal activist groups have been vigorously opposing the Trump administration's push to ask a citizenship question on the census.
A citizenship question was on the decennial census forms from 1820 to 1950.
Now with Trump's announcement of the executive order, it appears there is no path forward for a citizenship question on the census.
That said, there are at least four reasons the left cares so much about the census.
"The liberal Campaign Legal Center said in a post after the Supreme Court decision:"An addition of the Census question would have chilled minority participation in the 2020 Census and made it less accurate.
Unidos US, a Hispanic advocacy group formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, stressed the importance of the 2020 census, saying on its blog that many "Latinos currently live in hard-to-count Census tracts, and in 2010, the undercount for Latino children was twice that of White children-and this has led to reduced money and resources for our communities, schools, and neighborhoods."
After the Supreme Court decision on the citizenship question, Sam Berger, the vice president for democracy and government reform with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said, "The citizenship question would discourage millions of people from participating in the census and [compromise] federal funding for critical programs across the country."
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/11/4-reasons-the-left-is-so-invested-in-the-census-debate/
A citizenship question was on the decennial census forms from 1820 to 1950.
Now with Trump's announcement of the executive order, it appears there is no path forward for a citizenship question on the census.
That said, there are at least four reasons the left cares so much about the census.
"The liberal Campaign Legal Center said in a post after the Supreme Court decision:"An addition of the Census question would have chilled minority participation in the 2020 Census and made it less accurate.
Unidos US, a Hispanic advocacy group formerly known as the National Council of La Raza, stressed the importance of the 2020 census, saying on its blog that many "Latinos currently live in hard-to-count Census tracts, and in 2010, the undercount for Latino children was twice that of White children-and this has led to reduced money and resources for our communities, schools, and neighborhoods."
After the Supreme Court decision on the citizenship question, Sam Berger, the vice president for democracy and government reform with the Center for American Progress, a liberal think tank, said, "The citizenship question would discourage millions of people from participating in the census and [compromise] federal funding for critical programs across the country."
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/07/11/4-reasons-the-left-is-so-invested-in-the-census-debate/
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