New Orleans For a long time a country’s ability to consistently and accurately conduct a census has been a mark not only of modernity, but of civilization itself and a country’s standing in the world. For many years, Australia and the United States have been bellwethers in creating the standards for the enumeration of …
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Land Contracts Are Back in the Census
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans All of the controversy on questions in the 2020 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, has been about whether a question would be allowed about citizenship. The federal courts pretty much slammed the door on that question when one judge after …
Count Me In, America!
New Orleans The US Constitution is clear: count everyone every ten years. Period. No, ifs, ands, and buts about it. In the Supreme Court case the justices who claim to be “originalists,” meaning that they believe every single word of the document is evergreen despite the passage of almost 250 years, and all that has …