ORLANDO, Fla. - Calling preparations for the 2020 Census “conspicuously deficient,” the NAACP is suing the U.S. Census Bureau, demanding that the agency send more workers into the field and spend more money on encouraging people to participate in the once-a-decade head count. The civil rights group and Prince George’s County, a majority African American county in Maryland, filed the lawsuit last Friday in federal court in Maryland. It claims the Census Bureau wasn’t planning to put enough workers in the field and hadn’t opened up a sufficient number of field offices. An earlier version of the lawsuit was first filed in 2018, but it was dismissed by the district court. In previous court papers, the Census Bureau has called the lawsuit “meritless.”“___YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN...

Source: thestar January 13, 2020 18:33 UTC