Ohio Census Advocacy Coalition

And there it is...Ohio lost one seat- we were preparing for this and thankful it wasn’t 2 seats lost. ⁦@CDF_Ohio⁩ ⁦@CensusOhio⁩

NEW: Before leaving office, the Trump admin did not comply with the House Oversight and Reform Committee's subpoenas for documents about the 2020 census, but the Biden admin is now in discussions with the committee about "a possible accommodation," according to this court filing

Happy #WomensHistoryMonth from an organization founded and driven by a fearless female! Who is your favorite female changemaker? 👇👇

Coming soon from the Census Bureau — more blog posts about how it adapted 2020 census field operations and how it's trying to fix inconsistencies in census records:

#2020Census news: The Biden admin affirms that Trump's citizenship-data-related plots weren't necessary for Voting Rights Act enforcement, ending a 3+ year fight to stop Trump from corrupting the count by excluding undocumented people. The long history🧵👇@BrennanCenter

For the past 4 years, the Trump admin’s census moves followed a playbook by the Federation for American Immigration Reform for radically reshaping Congress, the Electoral College and public policy with a count of unauthorized immigrants. My investigation: npr.org/2021/02/15/967…

6. And here's my write-up on where the 2020 census currently stands: npr.org/2021/01/27/961…

NEW: The Senate Commerce Committee has voted 21-3 to advance the nomination of Gina Raimondo as the next commerce secretary overseeing the Census Bureau. The next step is a full Senate vote, which has not been scheduled yet.

UPDATE: The @SenateCommerce Committee is meeting on Feb. 3 at 9:30 a.m. ET (a half hour earlier than previously scheduled) to vote on Rhode Island Gov. @GinaRaimondo's nomination to be the next commerce secretary overseeing the Census Bureau

Reflecting on our 2020 Census work and the first meeting of the 2030 Census planning committee!!! @CensusOhio @CleveFoundation @clevelandmarcia @PolicyMattersOH @CommunitySols and so many other partners who believe in building a strong democracy!!!

If you need a reminder that the 2020 census is not over yet, the Census Bureau says -state population counts that determine your state's new share of House/Electoral College votes: by 4/30 -redistricting data for redrawing voting maps: likely after 7/30 npr.org/2021/01/27/961…

BREAKING: The 2020 census results used to determine each state’s share of votes in the House of Representatives and the Electoral College for the next 10 years are now expected to be released on April 30, Census Bureau official Kathleen Styles announced during @NCSLorg webinar

After Feb. 1, the Census Bureau is likely to have a new confirmed commerce secretary who intends to depoliticize the count and listen to its experts to ensure that 2020 census results are accurate. My write-up of Gov. @GinaRaimondo’s confirmation hearing: npr.org/2021/01/26/960…

NEW: The Biden administration has appointed Meghan Maury — policy director of @TheTaskForce and a former member of the Census Bureau's National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic, and Other Populations — as a senior adviser at the bureau

Biden closes the book on the Trump effort to create a non-citizen dataset in the #Census (via @AP) apnews.com/article/joe-bi…

NEW: There's no mention of the census among what President Biden's commerce secretary pick, Gov. @GinaRaimondo, believes are the top three challenges facing the Commerce Department, according to this response to a @SenateCommerce Committee questionnaire commerce.senate.gov/services/files…

Native Americans have lived in what became known as the U.S. for thousands of years but were not included in the published U.S. census count until 1890 and not included in congressional apportionment counts until 1940.

BREAKING: Census Bureau signals it's reevaluating the need to continue a Trump admin project that uses gov't records to produce block-level citizenship data, which could benefit Republicans during redistricting. Bureau says it'll ask DOJ if existing data meet "statistical needs"

NEW: President Biden is ordering the Census Bureau director to join an interagency working group to examine how federal data sets can be more equitable by disaggregating info by race, ethnicity, gender, disability, income and veteran status whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…