Marc Morial: “It matters. It matters to money. It matters to power, while we work on all of the things that are necessary to ensure a…”

Wise people change, fools never. And if they continue along the course that they are going, they will not hire enough people and an undercount is preordained.

We had to completely rebuild the department. I said at the time that we were going to tear it down brick by brick and we were going to rebuild it brick by brick.

D.C., for many Federal programs and initiatives, is treated like a territory, which denies the residents of the District of Columbia, including its black residents, equal treatment and therefore equal representation.

A miss on the Census affects you the entire decade. It is not like you get a re-do the following year.