Editorial: Counting every Texan should matter to Texas

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2020 census undercounts will hurt Texas, as local communities were left to do outreach on their own during a particularly challenging count, writes the Editorial Board.

On Saturday, August 1, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Beaumont NAACP hosted their first 2020 Census"Get Out the Count" Car Parade. Beaumont??s response rate for the Census is currently at 57.1% and Jefferson County??s rate is at 55% with just three months left before the final deadline for the count. Photo made on August 1, 2020. Fran Ruchalski/The EnterpriseThe early results from the 2020 census seemed pretty good for Texas.

Texas launched a last-minute public awareness campaign, but experts said the effort was too little and too late. Instead, the state,, mostly left it to local communities to boost the count, and that wasn’t enough, explained Margaret Wallace Brown, director of Houston’s planning and development department.

In reporting the undercount estimates this month, the Census Bureau stood behind its overall numbers, which showed America’s population had grown from 308.7 million to 331.4 million. And, of course, undercounts and overcounts are part of the Census every 10 years, given the magnitude of its task of surveying every household in the land.

 

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