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Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Dara, Jane, and Matt take a look at America's first pandemic Census. Resources: "The pandemic may leave communities of color undercounted in the census — and cost them billions" by Donna M. Owens, Vox "Trump is still trying to collect citizenship data for redistricting" by Nicole Narea, Vox "A once-in-a-century pandemic collides with a once-in-a-decade census" by Andrew Whitby, Brookings "Over a million Hispanics turned white between the 2000 and 2010 Census" by Matthew Yglesias, Vox White paper Hosts: Matt Yglesias (@mattyglesias), Senior Correspondent, Vox Jane Coaston (@cjane87), Senior politics correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@DLind), Immigration reporter, ProPublica Credits: Jeff Geld, (@jeff_geld), Editor and Producer The Weeds is a Vox Media Podcast Network production Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a contribution to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts About Vox Vox is a news network that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Follow Us: Vox.com Facebook group: The Weeds Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:33.2	Counting is math, ish.
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0:53.6	Here with Jane Kostin, ProPublica's Darrylind.
0:56.3	We're going to switch things up.
0:57.9	We're going to do a pandemic white paper today, but then talk about something that, like
1:02.6	much of American life is impacted by the pandemic, but really is fundamentally a sort
1:07.8	of broader concern, which is we are doing a decennial census this year, 2020.
1:14.4	These things happen every 10 years, and it's a great Weeds topic, because, like, officially,
1:20.8	the census is this kind of nerdy statistical exercise that attempts to ascertain how
1:26.7	many people live in where they live and, you know, some stuff about their households.
1:32.3	But in fact, it's always an incredible political hot button, because it's not sort of just
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