Immigrants’ advocates want New York’s Governor to start distributing funds to promote participation in the 2020 census. The potential for a citizenship question on the census created fear that immigrants could risk deportation. That question won’t be included, but the fear persists. The governor allocated 20-million dollars for an outreach effort to counter that fear – but Meeta Anand of the New York Immigration Coalition says the effort hasn’t yet begun…
Census forms will go out next March. New York could lose more than 25-hundred dollars from 16 federal programs for each resident if New Yorkers are under-counted.