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The 2020 Census: Trump, the Pandemic, and Threats to Democracy

The 2020 Census: Trump, the Pandemic, and Threats to Democracy U.S. Census taker shows ID badge. U.S. Census Bureau 1090981 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960221090981New Labor ForumAnderson and Beveridge research-article2022 New Labor Forum 2022, Vol. 31(2) 72 –82 The 2020 Census: Trump, the Copyright © 2022, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: Pandemic, and Threats to sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221090981 DOI: 10.1177/10957960221090981 Democracy journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf 1 2 Margo Anderson and Andrew A. Beveridge Keywords Trump, census, immigrants, minorities, politics In 2020, the federal government set about the from disclosure, it also runs the risk of adding once-a-decade task of counting the nation’s pop- bias to every census result. ulation. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau Taken together, these issues raised the ques- reported the result topped 331 million people. tion of whether the results are, in census jargon, By comparison, the first census in 1790 counted “fit for use” for the next decade. Most particu- 3.9 million people. Population growth and larly, are the resulting data biased in ways that demographic change have characterized the would lead to underrepresenting minorities and nation ever since. The United States relies upon overrepresenting non-Hispanic white popula- the census to track those changes and to allocate tions? The recently released Post-Enumeration both political http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png New Labor Forum SAGE

The 2020 Census: Trump, the Pandemic, and Threats to Democracy

Anderson, Margo; Beveridge, Andrew A.
New Labor Forum , Volume 31 (2): 11 – May 1, 2022
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U.S. Census taker shows ID badge. U.S. Census Bureau 1090981 NLFXXX10.1177/10957960221090981New Labor ForumAnderson and Beveridge research-article2022 New Labor Forum 2022, Vol. 31(2) 72 –82 The 2020 Census: Trump, the Copyright © 2022, The Murphy Institute, CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies Article reuse guidelines: Pandemic, and Threats to sagepub.com/journals-permissions https://doi.org/10.1177/10957960221090981 DOI: 10.1177/10957960221090981 Democracy journals.sagepub.com/home/nlf 1 2 Margo Anderson and Andrew A. Beveridge Keywords Trump, census, immigrants, minorities, politics In 2020, the federal government set about the from disclosure, it also runs the risk of adding once-a-decade task of counting the nation’s pop- bias to every census result. ulation. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau Taken together, these issues raised the ques- reported the result topped 331 million people. tion of whether the results are, in census jargon, By comparison, the first census in 1790 counted “fit for use” for the next decade. Most particu- 3.9 million people. Population growth and larly, are the resulting data biased in ways that demographic change have characterized the would lead to underrepresenting minorities and nation ever since. The United States relies upon overrepresenting non-Hispanic white popula- the census to track those changes and to allocate tions? The recently released Post-Enumeration both political

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