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Rich or poor, documented or undocumented, land owning or not, whether you have been convicted of a crime, whether you have food on your table, no matter who you are you count and you should be counted in the United States of America.
We do feel that this will make significant undercount in certain communities for those individuals who are incarcerated, and as stated today, what is at risk between representation and as well as funding, there are many communities…
Ms. Ocasio-Cortez has been a passionate champion of making sure everyone in New York City and across the United States gets counted in the Census
How do we make sure that--you know, how are we accommodating or changing our process to really be adaptive to that reality?
I think it is a--one of those routine practices that we do that we don't appreciate how radical it actually is.
Thank you all so much again for coming to testify.
the idea, the notion, that every single person who rests, who has their feet on the ground of the United States, in the land of the United States of America is to be counted, and that is written into our Constitution.
Will it threaten funding for Medicare and Medicaid?
If you engage in Census you will get more political power.
So I--my congressional district includes Rikers Island, for example. All of the individuals held in Rikers Island, many held without being found guilty of a crime, are counted at Rikers and not counted in the communities that they actually…
We need to be ensured the data of individuals are aggregate will be secured that also include the elimination of question related to the citizenship or immigration on the Census.
This impact of undercounting cannot be understated and consequences will be borne by our society as a whole.
Yes, and even just from an organizing perspective, all of us, whenever we are up for reelection we need to count who is going to show up and cast a ballot on Election Day.
How we implement Census 2020 will have long-lasting impact on our communities, our society, and our democracy.
Will it threaten funding for SNAP, WIC, EBT?
Will it threaten funding for our infrastructure?
So we have on the record that the--that the Census is under attack and that it is a targeted attack of specific communities by the Federal administration.