Protecting the 2020 US Census
June 25, 2019
Democratic staff members of the House Oversight Committee are claiming proof that the Trump administration’s proposal to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 US Census is “partisan and discriminatory,” just ahead of the Supreme Court’s expected ruling on whether the question is legal. In Issues, a senior scholar at the National Academies argues against the addition, as part of her examination of the history of the Census, the problems it has encountered, and the lessons learned for protecting the accuracy of the decennial enumeration of the nation’s population.