The demographic data to be released later this year will help determine how federal money for roads, schools and other public works projects is distributed across the country.Texas will gain three seats and Florida two seats. Arizona, Colorado, Montana, North Carolina and Oregon are each expected to gain one seat.
Meanwhile, Alabama, California, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia could each lose a congressional seat, they said, though Brace thinks New York could lose a second seat as well.because of the Trump administration’s efforts to exclude undocumented immigrants from the state population counts.
The coronavirus pandemic also further delayed the release of the numbers. The bureau last year postponed the deadline for completing the count from the end of July to the end of October. Then, last summer, the agency announced that the deadline would be changed to the end of September, cutting off a month, after the Republican-controlled Senate failed to take action on a Census Bureau request for more time to turn in the numbers.
The bureau laster missed a Dec. 31 deadline for turning in the apportionment numbers, and it kept pushing back the dates for releasing the numbers after not-unexpected irregularities were found in the data.The Associated Press
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