Perilous time for the 2020 census. Troubling, there were reports indicating career officials at the Census Bureau warned the trump about significant problems that will delay the delivery of census data to late january or early february. After these reports became public, the director of the census, dr. Steven billingham, issued a Public Statement confirming problems were found, but provided no details. These developments were particularly troubling because they were not reported to our committee before we write about them in the press or before the census director made his Public Statement. Committee has jurisdiction, but nobody from the Trump Administration informed us about these problems or delays. For these reasons, the committee wrote a letter to the Census Bureau november 19. We asked for documents career officials prepared describing these data problems and the resulting delays. We also requested documents repaired for the department of commerce, including the commerce secretary
Are my own and not to be attributed to the trustees. Of the census accuracy is deeper and more complex than the latest chapter on anomalies. These are problems yet to be found reveal the consequences and risks. To help illustrate the challenges of 2020 census accuracy, i start with Research Conducted by Diana Elliott and i last year to explore 2020 census outcomes. This was precovid. We chose three risk scenarios and used Census Bureau research to simulate 2020 counts. The most optimistic scenario mimicked the performance of the 2010 census, which came in 0001 of population estimate. When we overlaid that performance over the 2020 projection, we discovered a net undercount of the population of 3 . Stated differently, had the pandemic never happened, people of color are historically undercounted, and our wonderful nation, have become more racially and ethnically diverse over the past 10 years. While this 2010 census was accurate for the total u. S. Population, it came at the expense of
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Literature in the time of corona a shortlist of new prize where the novels a distinguished author and a digital book fair how is the literary world coping with the pandemic 21 gets the views of some writers and then all going to. But 1st the biggest awards of all that are built for as in literature for 2020 is awarded to the american poet reason click for her. To voice. Few people were expecting her to win the 2020 nobel prize in literature the poet louise glick the committee praised the austere beauty of her writing her reaction was like conic. Joy joy the true. Click has received numerous awards in the u. S. And. She was the countrys poet laureate. She was born in 1903 in new york city and her father signed shes descended from hungary and jews who emigrated to the u. S. Glick suffered from anorexia and dropped out of college she spent years receiving psychiatric treatment she has always processed her own Life Experiences and her poetry her unique writing making them universally relat