My friend was telling me that she saw this somewhere...
saw this article about Vermont and Windham county
BENNINGTON — A month after most U.S. households were invited to respond to the 2020 census, nearly half of the country has already done so. That's 69 million households.
But when you zoom in to Vermont, the participation numbers aren't as encouraging. As of Thursday afternoon, only 37.2 percent of Vermont's 354,000 households had responded — about 10 percentage points below the national rate of 46.7 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's online tracker.
This places Vermont at No. 48 among all the states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
The Vermont Complete Count Committee, formed to ensure a complete and accurate statewide population count, believes Vermonters have gotten distracted by the novel coronavirus pandemic, which has led to massive job losses as well as a scramble to secure daily necessities like toilet paper.
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Windham and Bennington counties, in particular, rank in the lower half of the state's 14 counties. Windham is second to the last at 24.9 percent, and Bennington County is in ninth place at 30.8 percent as of Thursday afternoon, according to Vermont's census response tracker.
Windham County has around 30,400 households; Bennington County, 21,100, according to Census Bureau estimates.
When asked how the current response rates match expectations, Moser said it's difficult to compare this year's figures with those of the 2010 census because of the newly launched online response platform.
For the first time, the 2020 census offers U.S. residents the option of filling out their census forms online — besides the traditional paper and phone methods. The online response site, my2020census.gov, which officially launched March 11, is responsible for gathering nearly 90 percent of the country's total responses so far.
Lowest rates in Vermont
A big concentration of the Vermont towns or cities with the lowest response rates can be found in the southern part of the state. As of Thursday afternoon, the lowest numbers statewide can be found in Bennington and Windham counties.
Stratton is at the bottom of the ladder at 1.4 percent. Dover is one step above at 3.3 percent, and Winhall is just another step higher at 3.4 percent. Rutland County's Killington (4.1 percent) and Peru (5.3 percent) round out the bottom five.
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Community leaders are concerned that historically hard-to-count residents will be even harder to count in this year's census, thanks to technological hurdles and increased distrust in government.
Why it matters: The census — which will count more than 330 million people this year — determines how $1.5 trillion in federal funding gets allocated across state and local governments. Inaccurate counts mean that communities don't get their fair share of those dollars.
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funny thing ...
he lives here by chance
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from this story to his 53rd b-day....
the town gets $4,000......
reason for the response slow...
This places Vermont at No. 48 among all the states plus Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico.
48th most responsive state to the US census
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| • Total | 12,046 |
| • Density | 375.3/sq mi (144.9/km2) |
let's look at the first leader of the Census Bureau....
Merriam's final accomplishment was appropriate for a banker and businessman who could work well with both people and numbers. He was director of the twelfth national census and later persuaded Congressto establish a permanent Census Bureau, where he served as its first director. Merriam never returned to Minnesota, but retired instead to Florida, where he died in Port Sewall[1] at age 81.
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Article I, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution mandates that an apportionment of representatives among the states must be carried out every 10 years. Therefore, apportionment is the original legal purpose of the decennial census, as intended by our Nation's Founders. Apportionment is the process of dividing the 435 memberships, or seats, in the U.S. House of Representatives among the 50 states, based on the state population counts that result from each decennial census. The apportionment results will be the first data published from the 2020 Census, and those results will determine the amount of political representation each state will have in Congress for the next 10 years.
from his last b-day to the formation of first census bureau...
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