- The NY Times published an Opinion piece called Census Sabotage by David Leonhardt. "Counting every person in the country isn’t cheap, and the census appears to have been underfunded by about $230 million over the last two years, Schanzenbach and Strain explain.
- McClatchy has identified the rural South as an area that could be undercounted.
- Newsday writes about a proposed question that has immigration advocates worried
01 March 2018
Census update
As a update to an earlier post about the US Census:
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Although Professor Thomas Brunell is no longer being considered for the deputy directorship of the Census, it's worth examining [this Chronicle of Higher Ed summary of] his work, namely the contrarian book Redistricting and Representation: Why Competitive Elections are Bad for America: "If a candidate wins with 51 percent of the vote, then the other 49 percent of voters get nothing. But if a candidate gets, say, 75 percent, then a larger share of voters would be satisfied."
The way that the census has counted prisoners has not changed, but rising US incarceration rates have significantly added onto the populations of legislative districts that host prisons. Prisons tend to be located in rural and low-density regions anyway, magnifying the proportional impact on district populations. see the Prisoners of the Census advocacy website for more.
Here, Gregory Piatetsky writes on the provenance of the story about "How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did"
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