
Why It Counts to Be Counted
“The 2020 Census is coming. For the large part of my life, the Census played like background music. I knew it was there, but I didn’t pay much attention to the lyrics. The Census drops in every ten years as this big thing. But honestly, I hadn’t spent much time thinking about it in my own neighborhood. Yet as 2020 nears, and the Census conversation picks up, I began connecting the dots between the Census process, taking the Census, and my life. I’ve learned that funding deter