The first official week of nationwide doorknocking for the 2020 count.

The only problem is everything.

Well the census is really just a mess right now.

It really is a mess.

Juan Zilo Wong's been paying close attention to the census for NPR and by my estimation

the country.

There are a lot of challenges facing the census including the pandemic, including a shortened

counting period.

And we're at a point right now where roughly four out of ten households have not been

counted yet nationwide.

And these remaining households are what the Census Bureau considers the hardest to count

in the country.

And I'm sure predominantly folks from historically undercounted groups, groups that have high

levels of mistrust of the government, distrust of the government are very wary of participating

and then sharing their personal information.

Despite federal laws that protect people's personal information that is now being

complicated by multiple attempts by the White House to make changes to how the census

is conducted, there's no real direct comparison that can make any past count in the US history.

So it sounds like Hansi we have these two major buckets of challenges facing the 2020

census.

There's all the stuff related to the pandemic and then there's the general President

Trump and his administration challenging this count.

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