Like other states, Minnesota is targeting immigrant children for census outreach since they’re likely to be the ones filling out forms in families without other English speakers. “Now is the time to do it,” said Wendy Underhill, who monitors state census preparations for the National Conference of State Legislatures. States and cities may challenge the federal count if they can prove technical errors. California spent only $2 million on the 2010 census, when the state had a severe budget crisis, and $25 million in 2000. “The community leaders we pulled together came into this with a lot of skepticism, but they are fully committed now to an accurate census count.

Source: Huffington Post February 01, 2019 18:11 UTC