Today is officially Census Day, “the nation’s once-per-decade, constitutionally-mandated count of every American, regardless of their citizenship status,” and it has never been more important to get counted as Kings County the lowest response rate for a county of its size in 2010.
The Census helps to determine how much federal funding localities will receive for infrastructure, public schools and housing and many other important programs.
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Many of my senior friends who don’t have computers have received three, four mailings telling them the census is coming. As of yet it hasn’t come in the mail but they are told to go to the computer to register which they don’t have.
Typical red tape gov’t bureaucracy.