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Carolyn Maloney: The 1990 census was called a failure because there was a declining response rate.

On the recordOctober 11, 2017
The 1990 census was called a failure because there was a declining response rate.
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Carolyn Maloney
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Maloney references past census failures to stress the need for public outreach.

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