Census Update

     The U.S. Constitution mandates a census every ten years, but Covid19 has complicated that process, just as it has messed up so much else about daily life. 

     Now a census delay is being proposed, though Congress will have to approve it.

Officials want delay in nation's head count due to virus

Census Bureau officials said they were postponing all field operations until June 1 and the deadline for wrapping up the nation's head count was being pushed back to Oct. 31.
Field operations for the 2020 census have been suspended since mid-March and were set to resume this week. The deadline for finishing the head count also had been pushed back from the end of July to mid-August because of the pandemic.

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     Alabama's response rate till now has been below 50%, though in the previous 2010 census, it was in the 66.3%.