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Jamie Raskin: “Adding such a question raises the serious risk of depressing the response rates of immigrants and other minority…”

On the recordJune 7, 2018
Adding such a question raises the serious risk of depressing the response rates of immigrants and other minority communities, leading to an undercount of their numbers.
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Jamie Raskin
Democratic · Maryland

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Discussing the negative impact of a citizenship question on the census.

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