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L.A. County gears up for 2020 Census

by City News Service • January 30, 2019

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved $9.4 million in spending on education and outreach related to the 2020 Census.

Supervisor Hilda Solis recommended the use of state funds to make sure every resident is counted, hoping to counter fears about how the data will be used and highlighting the need for accuracy.

“L.A. County is a safety net for so many of our children and families, and an accurate count of the county’s residents is vital to our ability to continue to provide services to our most underserved communities,” Solis said. “Ten of the largest federal programs serving children distribute $160 billion a year based on census-driven data.”

Hundreds of billions in federal funding to states and local jurisdictions is dictated or informed by census results.

Census experts say Los Angeles County is the hardest-to-count county in America, due to its diverse mix of groups that have a historically low rate of census participation, including black and Latino residents, immigrants, those who speak limited English and people living in poverty.

Much of the 2020 census data is expected to be gathered online, which will further disadvantage those without easy access to technology.

Advocates said children and Latino residents have been undercounted in years past.

“We cannot obtain an accurate count without an accurate count of the county’s Latinos,” said Giovany Hernandez of the NALEO Educational Fund. “I also want to highlight that in the last census, Los Angeles County saw an undercount of 74,000 children. Of that amount, there were 47,000 Latino children.”

The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials is a non-partisan membership group.

Concerns that distrust of government may cause some residents to avoid participating in the census were heightened when the Trump administration announced that a new citizenship question would be added in 2020. That plan is facing multiple legal challenges that are likely to be appealed up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

In addition to authorizing the process to opt-in for state funding, the board directed the CEO to develop an outreach plan and negotiate with community-based organizations who can help. It also approved $2 million for the California Community Foundation, which will assist the effort to reach out to residents in hard-to-count census tracts.

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Filed Under: Home, Los Angeles County

3 comments for "L.A. County gears up for 2020 Census"

  1. Nancy Pelosi says

    February 1, 2019 at 11:44 am

    We need more taxes.

    • William says

      February 1, 2019 at 2:37 pm

      Hey, “Nancy Pelosi”

      I thought Trump was gonna make you rich. Why are you complaining about taxes. He cut them for ya.

  2. $160 billion a year based on census-driven data says

    February 1, 2019 at 3:11 am

    And when the illegals don’t chime in … you find you have a deficit when it comes to funding critical life services.

    I’ve seen illegals call the ambulance when it’s time to download an American citizen. Who pays for that?

    I think the great state of California is in a serious downward spiral because of illegal immigration and social services not accounted for?

    Schools are dumb’d down because language barriers and class sizes is the big issue in my book

    Trump isn’t going to give California shit in federal funding because of illegal immigration harboring.

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