- April 7, 2022
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Economy
The decennial Census may feel very 2020 at this point — something that happened in a year we’d all like to forget.
But last month the Census Bureau released its best guess as to how accurate the count of every person living in the United States actually was.
The good news? Census thinks its overall count of 331,449,281 was pretty spot on.
The bad news? The Bureau thinks it yet again undercounted certain demographic groups, missing roughly 3% of African Americans, 5% of Hispanics or Latinos and 6% of Alaska Natives and Native Americans living on reservations.
“At best the census was a ‘D-,’” said Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and former mayor of New Orleans. “And the reason it was a ‘D-‘ is the substantial undercount of Black and brown communities should be unacceptable in a modern democracy.”
That undercount influences political redistricting and the distribution of…
