2020 census--just read that Trump gang has closed half of regional census offices!!

[bobbieinok]

The idea to significantly slow count and drastically cut numbers working in poor/minority areas and thus drastically cut numbers in states with large minority populations

[elleng]

1. ONE of the way repugs do it,

same as election days!

[riversedge]

2. sickening to say the least.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. Doesn't sound right-- 2020 Census has other problems, but hasn't even started...

staffing yet. Several of the regional offices were merged a few years ago, so maybe that's what this is about.

[sop]

4. I never realized a president had so many powers and could flout the law with such impunity

Who knew Trump was elected to a higher office than president?

[Blue_true]

10. The Supreme Court is looking the other way on a lot of this.

The next democratic President should study what Trump was allowed to get away with and be absolutely ruthless in implementing liberal objectives, if anyone complains, point to what Trump was allowed to do.

[pangaia]

5. I knew leaving out the citizenship question wasn't the end of it.. not these fuckers...

[hlthe2b]

6. Guess what, Trump... That opens up the floodgates for local tv investigative reporting...

to monitor progress during the census period. That is something they LOVE to do--a local story of national signficance.

[hlthe2b]

7. Please include your link for those who want to read further...

[yonder]

8. I wonder if they were planning on doing this anyway,

despite the outcome of the citizenship question? It has Miller's handiwork all over it.

[bdamomma]

12. Miller's

name is allover this. Get that bastard. He needs to arrested.

[Me.]

9. The States That Need Help The Most

full of his supporters

[Blue_true]

11. I agree. Blue states will find a way around this, so will blue areas of purple states.

Like everything Trump has done, he will hurt his supporters most.

[Me.]

13. If Only They Cared!

[Blue_true]

17. Screw them. If they want to cut their throats, we should let them. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

14. I'd like to see the link, pls. n/t

[former9thward]

15. Where did you "just read" about this?

If you did you could provide a link...

[EleanorR]

16. This article is from April, but does support the OP's contention

Nationally, the Census Bureau plans to cut the number of local offices in half compared to 2010, with workers condensed into fewer offices. The bureau also expects to hire fewer enumerators — the staff who do the follow-up work when people don’t respond to census information requests — than in 2010.

That has alarmed some state and local government officials, who warn that the bureau’s shrinking physical footprint will only heighten other logistical challenges facing the Census. A more mobile, diverse population — and one that is increasingly distrustful of government — has driven up the cost of the Census in recent decades, even as response rates have fallen.

In January, more than 50 House Democrats, including 17 Californians, signed a letter to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross expressing concern that, “a heavy reliance on internet automation, compounded by the decision to dramatically reduce the bureau’s field presence, will disproportionately underrepresent rural, low-income and minority communities” — communities already far more likely to be missed by the federal headcount.

Rep. Jimmy Panetta of Carmel Valley wrote the letter. The city of Salinas, in his congressional district, had a local field office in 2010 but the district won’t have any offices in 2020.

Read more here: https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article230120529.html#storylink=cpy