When the Census Becomes a Political Tool, Everyone Loses

A census is not a political event. It is a national reckoning with reality. Every ten years or so, a country pauses to count itself. To ask who we are, where we live, how we are housed, how old we are, and how many of us there are. The answers to those questions shape everything that follows: how schools are built, how hospitals are funded, how roads are planned, how budgets are divided. A census is, in the most literal…Continue reading with a subscriptionSubscribe for full access to every story.Subscribe - M85/monthAlready a subscriber? Sign in Advertisement ...