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On the recordMarch 19, 2018
This latest action will undermine efforts to build trust and participation in the census in my hometown and elsewhere, which in turn will undermine census accuracy, but also distort the important functions that we use this information for, like the distribution of federal formula funds.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York

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Lowey criticizes the citizenship question's impact on census accuracy and federal funding distribution.

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