Blog 4.3 - Census
1. What question will be added to the Census in 2020? The 2020 census will ask every American household to record which members of their family are US citizens. 2. How does the government justify this addition? The government’s justification for the question sounds simple enough: Asking about citizenship will provide more information about who is in the United States, and more information is always good. 3. Why do people have a problem with this addition? The critics are skeptical that the Trump administration intends to use citizenship data for good reasons. The not-so-subtle implication, critics say, is that that it’s part of a broader project by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and company to take America back to the pre-civil rights era. 4. Why is it important to states that the undocumented immigrants that live there answer the Census? The census is used to determine congressional apportionment for the next decade, allocate federal funding for infrastructure, an