
A ‘bad’ 2020 Census could have major consequences
Clip: 10/27/2017 | 6m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Former Census director Kenneth Prewitt discusses what a crippled census in 2020 could mean
Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years is used to draw voting districts and determine how much funding to give to states, counties and cities, but underfunded and without a director, the agency is now on the verge of collapsing. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with former Census director Kenneth Prewitt to discuss what a crippled census in 2020 could mean for our democracy.
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A ‘bad’ 2020 Census could have major consequences
Clip: 10/27/2017 | 6m 44sVideo has Closed Captions
Data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau every 10 years is used to draw voting districts and determine how much funding to give to states, counties and cities, but underfunded and without a director, the agency is now on the verge of collapsing. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with former Census director Kenneth Prewitt to discuss what a crippled census in 2020 could mean for our democracy.
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