The Census Isn’t Over When Counting Stops

Texas Progressive Action Network is one of 370 national, state, and local groups urging the Senate to extend 2020 Census data reporting deadlines.

We ask that senators cosponsor or support the bipartisan 2020 Census Deadline Extensions Act (S. 4571), which would extend statutory deadlines for delivering apportionment and redistricting data to April and July 2021, respectively, as the administration requested in April 2020.

“Failure to push back the statutory reporting deadlines is forcing the Census Bureau to cut short critical 2020 Census data processing and quality check operations from the usual five months down to only two and a half months.”

Our most vulnerable communities are at stake and it is incumbent upon leadership to give time for us to get the count right.

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Texas Progressive Action Network is a people powered nonprofit committed to advancing voter education and good public policy in Texas through advocacy and outreach.

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