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March 10 (Reuters) - Black people, Latinos and Native Americans were undercounted during the 2020 national census, new U.S. Census Bureau data showed, potentially affecting political representation and federal funding for communities with significant minority populations.
The once-a-decade national population count is used to draw both U.S. congressional and state legislative seats in each state, as well as to help distribute hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds for everything from public housing to Medicare to highway construction.
Thursday's report from the Census Bureau relied on statistical analyses to test the accuracy of the census results. The census has overcounted white people while undercounting people of color for decades, but those trends accelerated during the 2020 census, the report showed.
The net count of the Latino population was likely 5% too low, more than three times the undercount estimated for the 2010 census, the bureau said. Black people had a net undercount of more than 3%, while Native Americans and Native Alaskans on reservations were undercounted by more than 5%, both more than in 2010.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-census-undercounted-black-people-latinos-native-americans-officials-say-2022-03-10/?taid=622a88d401e5e100017698d3&utm_campaign=trueAnthem:+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter
Skittles
(153,111 posts)yup
jimfields33
(15,682 posts)I know I did. Did we really only send it to certain populations?
Skittles
(153,111 posts)not EVEN gonna bother
jimfields33
(15,682 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)I mean, that would be rotten to the core. Um, wait a minute, that is their M.O., righto?
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)appalachiablue
(41,103 posts)BlueJac
(7,838 posts)Thunderbeast
(3,400 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)A new census should replace it asap.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,236 posts)but if we already know the real numbers, we need to rethink how we do the census or if we need one at all. We are spending a lot of money to come up with incorrect numbers.