A fair and accurate census is part of the American constitution yet the Trump administration has done everything in his power to threaten the count. A potential citizenship question, conducting the count online, and rumors of fewer dollars funding the census in advance of 2020, pose a threat to the census and could result in several communities, particularly immigrants and low-income communities to be undercounted. This has a grave impact on funding for services like food stamps, affordable housing vouchers, Medicaid and more. The census also determines redistricting which could mean fewer federal representatives for generations to come. The urgency is clear, but what are people doing to ensure a fair and accurate census?
Join us to chat about the impact of the census on the city, and how threatening the census could hurt low-income, immigrant, and communities across the country with members of the litigation team within the NY Attorney General’s office who are currently suing the Census Bureau, the former census coordinator of New York City, and community organizers across the country.
With a keynote from Kenneth Prewitt, former Director of the United States Census Bureau
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Yvette Stacey Cumberbatch, Former Census Coordinator for the City
Alex William Finkelstein, New York Attorney General’s Office
Dr John Flateau, Professor at CUNY and Former Census Coordinator for the State
Quinn Rhi, MinKwon Center for Community Action
Mazin Sidahmed, DocumentedNY
Introduction by Prof. Ester R. Fuchs
Moderated by Aliya Bhatia, MPA SIPA '19
