South Florida headcounts during the 2020 U.S. Census will determine how much federal funding out of $675 billion will be invested in local communities over the next decade.
To encourage more participation so South Florida sees its fair share of distributed federal tax dollars, the City of Miami announced its awareness campaign - Make Miami Count (#MakeMiamiCount.)
It aims to reduce fears of participation and undercounts,
In 2010 Miami-Dade County had a , 18,000 of which were Latino children. Broward County also had an undercount of 14,600 people, which census officials estimated cost the county approximately Palm Beach County also had a
To compound the issue, experts indicate that Trump Administration鈥檚 efforts to might have a fearful ripple-effect in immigrant households, even though the in June.
Threats to the could seriously impact the wellbeing of South Florida communities. New data from the Urban Institute reveals that the , disproportionately ignoring black and Latinx communities in .
Assistant U.S. Regional Census Manager Manuel Landivar spoke at the campaign kickoff. He said especially newly arrived immigrants and asylum seekers may not be aware of how valuable the U.S. Census is.
鈥淟unch programs, Head Start programs, English as a second language classes in schools, all these programs that have a federal government subsidy will be affected if the numbers are not there,鈥� Landivar said.
鈥淲e鈥檙e here, we live in this community, let鈥檚 do our civic duty to respond to the census. Because if we don鈥檛, we鈥檙e only going to shortchange ourselves.鈥�
