California’s Census self-response rate is a nationwide leader, but many residents in the state’s wealthy enclaves have yet to respond. 9.7 million households in the state have already responded — more than 64 percent — but more than two million households have not...
San Mateo County has achieved the highest census self-response rate in California by working with local organizations that know their communities intimately and by targeting messages to them. Those efforts by trusted, countywide, “on-the-ground” messengers were funded...
School lunch programs, which fed nearly half of American’s schoolchildren before the Coronavirus, have turned into a lifeline for families hit by unemployment and rising food prices during the pandemic. Many of those programs are now going broke, and their very...
Census Day, when the United States takes its once-every-decade collective selfie, is April 1. Those who don’t include themselves in the decennial snapshot will cost themselves and their communities thousands of dollars’ worth of government tax spending — $1.5...
It is Census Day, a snapshot of our country, but what is happening with the census during the COVID-19 outbreak? A panel of experts shared information at a telebriefing held on April 1, 2020, in partnership with Ethnic Media Services. Though Census 2020 kicked off...
