Halfway through the extended effort to count every U.S. resident, civil rights leaders worry that minority communities are falling behind in responding to the 2020 census.
With outreach efforts to motivate minority responses upended by a global pandemic, both the National Urban League and the NALEO Educational Fund are sounding the alarm that communities with concentrations of Black and Hispanic people have been trailing the rest of the nation in answering the census questionnaire.helps determine where $1.5 trillion in federal funding goes and how many congressional seats each state gets.
“Going into 2020, we knew the census was going to be extremely challenging. We knew the Census Bureau didn’t have sufficient preparations to do all of its tests to make sure it would work out the way it should be ... and then COVID-19 hit,” said Arturo Vargas, chief executive of NALEO Educational Fund, said this week during a virtual town hall with NBCUniversal Telemundo.
The nation’s self-response rate was 61.5% this week. Arizona, Florida, New Mexico, New York and Texas — states with large concentrations of Hispanic people — were lagging. California, which invested $187 million in outreach efforts, was doing slightly better, with 62.6% of its households responding, he said.
A more detailed analysis of response rates in late May and early June conducted by the Center for Urban Research at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center showed that neighborhoods with concentrations of Black residents had a self-response rate of 51%, compared with 53.8% for Hispanic-concentrated neighborhoods and 65.5% for white-dominant neighborhoods.
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