In 2030, U.S. mortality and morbidity rates will suddenly jump. This will happen not because there is a new pandemic or a sudden rise in cases of existing diseases or injuries, or decline in access to health care. Why? Because the census will change.
Efforts to correct historic undercount of poor, immigrant, rural, and minority populations are at risk, critics say
"I think we're at a point where anything from the federal government has to be treated with a certain amount of skepticism, if not suspicion," one expert told TPM.
While government statistics offer some useful insight into jobs, employment and poverty, they also miss a lot, and can underestimate poverty and unemployment levels.
The Court must decide whether to follow the Constitution’s clear text — or to rubber-stamp an illegal effort by Trump
"It's important that people know that we depend on the census for our resources, for our representation, for our voices to be heard and to be counted."
The 2011 official poverty rate is 15.1%. The new poverty measure presented—and missed by a wide margin—the opportunity to bring into public view how widespread the problem of poverty is for American families. If what we mean by poverty is the inability to meet one’s basic needs a more reasonable poverty line would tell us that 34% of Americans—more than one in three—are poor.
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