Hundreds of government programs rely on the census population counts and census-derived datasets for distributing financial aid.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census, saying the Trump administration’s rationale was “contrived”.
Critics of the citizenship question were concerned it would discourage immigrants and those who are not yet citizens from participating in the decennial survey, leading to an undercount of the true population.
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