The North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) keeps counties across the state informed about important matters related to county government, and, on Friday, Oct. 16, the organization’s weekly newsletter pointed out something that could be very bad news for North Carolina and for Guilford County.
After a decision this week by the US Supreme Court, the US Census Bureau announced that it would end its census collection efforts on Thursday, October 15. The bureau ended both field operations and the collection of self-reported census forms completed by individuals.
According to stats sent out by the NCACC, just before the time of stoppage, only 63.2 percent of North Carolina households had self-responded to the census. That puts North Carolina at number 36 out of 50 states and Washington, DC, in that regard, and it also puts North Carolina this year below the state’s self-response rates in 2010 and 2000.
That’s really bad news for Guilford County and the state’s other 99 counties because, not only do the census numbers determine the state’s representation in Washington, those numbers also – for a decade into the future – have a big impact on how many federal dollars the state, and its counties and cities, receive for various programs.
According to the NC Counts Coalition – an organization dedicated to seeing the state accurately represented in the 2020 census – the collected census data is used to allocate about $675 billion a year from federal programs. Also, North Carolina gets about $16 billion annually in federal funding from programs guided by the census stats.
The coalition also reports that a single missed person in the census count is roughly equivalent to “a forfeited $16,000 in funding for North Carolina over a 10-year period.”
There are many people out there who could give a rip about the census much less spell it!
Very unfortunate that I personally heard some local younger folks say they were not going to answer and government census questions for Trump. Like it was The President wanting the info!
I guess it don’t speak very well to basic State education; civics and government and Congress either not taught or simply not learned.
https://www.newsmax.com/us/census-count-bureau-complete/2020/10/19/id/992725/?oRef=mixi
This Newsmax story says “Census Counted 99.98 Percent of Homes Nationwide” so who is saying what?? I was an enumerator in Guilford County and we finished our area in the Non Response Follow Up operation.
“Census officials noted that every state except for Louisiana had 99.9% of its homes counted.”
Why aren’t you rejoicing. Finally, Guilford County won’t waste your tax dollars!
Anyone who gives out all their personal info to the govt is asking to be watched. Doesn’t anyone have any sense of personal privacy anymore?
Truth!
It used to be that a President when elect that he was respected,whichever party it was.Since the Republicans won in 16 ,the Dems have not respected,acknowledged,nor accept he fact that Donald Trump did win .Aslo Barack Hussein Obama ,when there was a difference of opinion ,he said that Elections have consequences. That’s why we had Kavanaugh 2 years ago and Ms Barrett now.Get over it and vote Republican Nov3.
That’s a bit of a chicken and an egg. Trump was never respected by many. Just because he got a new job title we should suddenly respect a crappy human being? No thanks
I don’t think the Dems ever got over Ken Starr and the Pubs for harassing President Clinton. The beginning of total ugliness. Many of our Presidents have been philanderers. Whether it affected their performance is unknown, but most gave them a pass. Personally, I would not vote for anyone who would disgrace his/her family in that manner.
Im a census worker and i know for a fact none response cases were closed without visits or calls. I know because I was asked to do exactly that along with several members of my team. I was sent 100 cases…god only knows how many other cases went to people who actually agreed.
Federal money, what’s that? The federal government has no money, no, wait, it’s worse that that. The federal government is 23 (at least) TRILLION dollars BEYOND broke, so any money from Washington isn’t from Washington– it’s from US! It’s sheer lunacy to think we can get money from anywhere without it costing us as much as or more than what we get.