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To supplement the main decennial census, the Census Bureau conducts the annual American Community Survey.
The objections to the ACS are a fascinating window on the radicalized post-2008 version Republican Party, a party that’s gone beyond skepticism about the merits of particular government programs to a generalized belief that even the most useful public sector undertakings are an infringement of basic rights.
The census itself is, of course, mandated by the Constitution and used to do things like draw congressional districts.
Since the Constitution calls for an “actual enumeration” (and because using statistical sampling instead would add voters to Democratic jurisdictions, and thus is a political nonstarter), the Census Bureau attempts to count every single American one by one.
House Republicans seem to be deadly serious about their ideological commitments and not just playing make-believe.
http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...lican_hate_it_.html?google_editors_picks=true
The objections to the ACS are a fascinating window on the radicalized post-2008 version Republican Party, a party that’s gone beyond skepticism about the merits of particular government programs to a generalized belief that even the most useful public sector undertakings are an infringement of basic rights.
The census itself is, of course, mandated by the Constitution and used to do things like draw congressional districts.
Since the Constitution calls for an “actual enumeration” (and because using statistical sampling instead would add voters to Democratic jurisdictions, and thus is a political nonstarter), the Census Bureau attempts to count every single American one by one.
House Republicans seem to be deadly serious about their ideological commitments and not just playing make-believe.
http://www.slate.com/articles/busin...lican_hate_it_.html?google_editors_picks=true