After rejecting efforts to spend state money on outreach to help ensure an accurate census count, Republican leaders are now dipping into federal coronavirus relief funds to pay for a last-minute ad campaign.
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Harris County joins federal lawsuit trying to extend time for U.S. census count
After the Trump administration announced an abrupt change to the census deadline, the largest county in Texas is among those suing to keep the count going until October.
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TribCast: Reading the political tea leaves on Biden in Texas and a census undercount
On this week’s TribCast, Alexa talks to Matthew, Patrick and Cassi about the Biden campaign’s recent activity in Texas, the fallout of a census undercount and early indications of what the legislative session might look like in a pandemic.
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An abrupt change to the census deadline shortened the response period by a month, increasing fears of an undercount in Texas
The Census Bureau on Monday lopped a month off the time people have to respond to the 2020 count. Texas is already lagging behind the country in response rates, with low-income and Hispanic Texans at high risk of being missed.
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Analysis: A Republican president wants to use the census to dilute the power of Texas, the biggest Republican state
The Trump administration wants to exclude undocumented immigrants from the population counts used to determine seats in Congress, an idea that would cut into the strength of the Texas delegation to Washington, D.C.
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Trump pushes to exclude undocumented immigrants when congressional seats are divvied up next year
If it withstands legal challenges, the memo signed Tuesday by the president could cost Texas several seats in Congress. But it’s unclear what data would be used to parse undocumented immigrants from the overall population counts.
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Texas’ Hispanic population grew by 2 million in the past decade, on pace to be largest share of state by 2021
New U.S. census estimates show the gap between Hispanic and white populations in the state continues to narrow, and Hispanics are projected to become the largest population group a year earlier than previously expected.
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Hidalgo County breaks out the megaphones in scramble to salvage census push
Coaxing census participation was going to be hard enough in some of Texas’ poorest communities. With coronavirus restrictions, organizers turned to driving sound trucks around colonias on the border, but now even that won’t be possible.
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Coronavirus derails ground game for Texas census count
Years of work went into planning neighborhood canvasses and educational efforts to reach out to every Texan, especially those most likely to be missed in the tally. Now those efforts are down for the count.
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Counting in Texas for the U.S. census has begun. Here’s what you need to know.
The accuracy of the count in the state will go a long way toward determining its economic, social and political future.
