After nearly 1 million children were left out of the US census in 2010, the federal government formed a task force to tackle the problem. But advocates and experts are sounding the alarm about the consequences of an even more inaccurate count in 2020.
"Kids do better when they're counted," Deborah Stein, network director of the Partnership for America’s Children, a Washington-based nonpartisan child policy advocacy coalition, said."When we count kids, there’s more federal funding for children’s health insurance, for child care, for foster care, for adoption, for schools, for special education, for all the programs that kids need. If we count all our young children, your state and community will get more of that money.
Karen Deaver, the task force’s leader, said she calls herself"a Lorax" — a reference to the children's book by Dr. Seuss, in which a character called the Lorax speaks out on behalf of an endangered environment. To reduce child undercounts in 2020 and beyond, specific language about children and babies was added to solicitation materials, while the language on the question that asks people to list everyone in their household was clarified to remind people to include children and babies.to an outline Deaver
But O'Hare said that"negative forces" surrounding the 2020 census, particularly residual fallout from the Trump administration’s now-abandoned push to add a citizenship question to the questionnaire, have the potential to cancel out the bureau's stepped-up efforts to count children,"to the point that we may have the same net undercount in 2020 as we had in 2010."
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