Make It Make Census
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The results of the 2020 Census were released yesterday, and they showed that over the past decade, the U.S. population grew by the slowest pace since the 1930s. The results will change how the 435 seats in Congress are allocated, with a handful of states set to gain or lose a seat. We discuss.
The Supreme Court will be taking up a case that deals with the rights that people have to carry guns outside their homes for self-defense. They'll also take on a case affecting free speech that began when a teen wrote "F School" in a Snapchat message.
And in headlines: the DOJ will investigate the Louisville police department, the Biden administration will give AstraZeneca shots to other countries, and California Governor Gavin Newsom to face a recall election.
Show Notes:
The Brennan Center: "The Redistricting Landscape, 2021–22" – https://bit.ly/3aHoqcP
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, April 27th. I'm Gideon Ressik. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Erin Ryan in For Achilles Hughes. |
| 0:11.8 | And this is what a day the Daily News podcast that always ends in a contest called Mortal Combat. |
| 0:16.8 | Yeah, it doesn't usually make it into the show, but the hosts do fight every day. |
| 0:20.7 | Yeah, something you might not know about me is I have four massive punching arms. |
| 0:34.8 | On today's show, the Supreme Court takes up the case of the F school heard around the world |
| 0:39.1 | and how it could affect free speech for students, then some headlines. But first, the latest. |
| 0:43.5 | According to the 2020 census, the number of people living in the United States was |
| 0:48.1 | 331,449,281. That's right. We're having a census party and acting director of the US census, |
| 0:58.4 | Ron Jarman dropped those numbers on us yesterday. The process was how do I put this lightly |
| 1:04.4 | troubled from the start? It was done during a pandemic. The last administration wanted to add |
| 1:09.5 | a citizenship question to the census questionnaire, which got blocked by the Supreme Court. |
| 1:14.1 | There were pushes to outright stop the count as well. But now we're here. So, |
| 1:18.7 | Gideon, let's start with some of the biggest takeaways from the numbers that we got. |
| 1:21.9 | Yeah, so one of the bigger things we found out was that over the past decade, |
| 1:25.2 | the US population grew by the slowest pace since the 1930s, just a 7.4% increase. |
| 1:32.3 | The initial reasons that people had for this were attributed to lower immigration rates, |
| 1:36.4 | older white populations, and lower birth rates in the country. And here's one kind of wild estimate |
| 1:42.0 | that's tied to that. So, there were more elderly people over the age of 80 than there are children |
| 1:47.6 | to and younger. Plus, the percentage of people 65 and older has grown by 35%. |
| 1:53.6 | And one grim note that I think people were sort of thinking about as this was coming out, |
| 1:57.7 | we don't really know what sort of effect there is from the lives that we've lost to COVID-19. |
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