“We get one chance to get this right and if we don’t get it right, then communities will be suffering for a decade to come.”. Get breaking news, with NR's unfiltered reporting, delivered straight to your inbox. Written By

A federal appeals court in New York struck down a Trump administration order that sought to exclude undocumented immigrants from being included in the census count. Individuals who have not completed the census can do so by phone until Friday at 2 a.m. Eastern Time, online until 6 a.m. Eastern Time on Friday, or mail a paper response as long as it is postmarked by Thursday. That would be $3 billion in lost funding over the next decade for programs like Medicaid, Medicare, public housing assistance, school lunch programs, and food stamps. While the emergency stay is technically only temporary, it effectively signals the end of the census since litigation is likely to last past the original deadline at the end of October, and the enormous operation of census counting is unlikely to be restarted. Keya Vakil The Census Bureau claimed on Tuesday that “well over 99.9%” of housing units were accounted for in the Census, but that figure has been questioned by experts who believe it to be a grossly inaccurate representation, as it does not cover households that have actually completed Census forms. Instead, it appears to include those checked off the list of uncounted households by any means, regardless of accuracy.

Written By Keya Vakil Last Updated October 15, 2020 8:05 am EDT. The figures also determine the number of Electoral College votes each state receives. The Supreme Court decision comes as a report by the the American Statistical Association has found that a shortened schedule, dropped quality control procedures, pending lawsuits and the outside politicization of some parts of the 2020 census have raised questions about the quality of the nation’s head count that need to be answered if the final numbers are going to be trusted. They are also used to draw congressional and state legislative districts, which can determine which laws are passed on the state or federal level. In 2010 for example, Texas was undercounted by nearly 239,500 residents, or a shade under 1%. All market data delayed 20 minutes. The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration a victory. She added that states will “suffer their lasting impact for at least the next 10 years.”.

October 14, 2020 2:29 pm EDT. The panel of three appellate judges said that just because the year-end deadline is impossible to meet doesn’t mean the court should require the Census Bureau to miss it. The plaintiffs said the ruling against them was not a total loss, as millions more people were counted during the extra two weeks. Then, in late July and early August, bureau officials shortened the count schedule by a month so that it would finish at the end of September. By. The Supreme Court decision required the votes of five justices.

Eastern Time on Friday morning, or midnight in Hawaii. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the Trump administration to not extend the census count instead of allowing it to continue through the end of October. What would an undercount actually cost a state or a community in terms of dollars and cents?

San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said that his city lost $200 million in federal funding over the decade following the 2010 census, and he feared it would lose more this time around. But the 9th U.S. The proposal to extend the apportionment deadline passed the Democratic-controlled House, but the Republican-controlled Senate didn’t take up the request.

Separately, the Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to let the government report two census figures to the president — one tabulated the usual way and the other omitting people who are undocumented immigrants. At issue was a request by the Trump administration that the Supreme Court suspend a lower court’s order extending the 2020 census through the end of October following delays caused by the pandemic. Ben S. Dutka is a journalist, writer and editor with over two decades of experience. A few local governments and civil rights groups won’t like this decision. By sticking to the deadline, the Trump administration would end up controlling the numbers used for the apportionment, no matter who wins next month’s presidential election. Signs advertising the 2020 census cover a boarded-up business amid the pandemic in Seattle in March. Keya is a reporter at COURIER, where he covers healthcare, education, the economy, and the occasional story about millennials. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing, "The harms caused by rushing this year's census count are irreparable.". “Every day has mattered, and the Supreme Court’s order staying the preliminary injunction does not erase the tremendous progress that has been made as a result of the district court’s rulings,” said Melissa Sherry, one of the attorneys for the coalition.