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On the recordJuly 23, 2019
Historically, communities of color and immigrant communities have been under-counted, while non-Hispanic whites have had a higher count.
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Jimmy Gomez
Democratic · California

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Gomez addresses historical under-counting of diverse communities in the census.

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