Mother, Should I Trust The Census Bureau?

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🗓️ 1 April 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Right now, the U.S. Census Bureau is trying to count every single person living in the country. It's a complex undertaking with enormous stakes. But some people are very afraid of how that information will be used by the government — especially given how it's been misused in the past. The first in our series about who counts in 2020.

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0:00.0	This is Code Switch from NPR. I'm Shireen Madisol Miraji.
0:03.4	And I'm Jean Demby.
0:05.3	Jean, do you know what day it is?
0:07.3	Uh, it's not our anniversary, right?
0:09.9	That's not our anniversary.
0:10.8	Oh, it's the first day of April.
0:13.5	And that means, you know, it's April fools.
0:16.5	Normally a day was there for pranks, with jokes,
0:18.9	and also it's a machinery, you know, except for this year.
0:21.6	Because, because of that, Rona.
0:24.4	Yes, paying such close attention to the Corona pandemic has
0:28.2	wrenched our attention away from a few other things,
0:30.4	like the fact that it is April fools day.
0:33.3	But more importantly, it's census day.
0:37.2	Census day, turn up.
0:38.8	Turn up.
0:39.3	Uh, census day is supposed to be filled with kickoff parties
0:43.9	and events and all sorts of social engagement
0:45.7	around getting people ant to fill out the census.
0:49.7	You remember back before in the old days,
0:51.9	the good old days when we say go outside to party and socialize?
0:55.2	Remember those times.
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