10.9. 8.7. 6. 5, 4, 3.0.1. I'm Bethany Van Zelt, and this is no ordinary episode of the 10 News. This is the 10 News gets extra.

The U.S. census results are in and changes are coming to Congress.

In today's episode, we will get caught up on this important count.

Let's dive in.

Last summer, we spoke with Yasmin Naboa from Count the Nation, an organization dedicated to educating

Generation Z about the importance of the census and her 12-year-old daughter, Alex. Here's what

Alex had to say about it. The census data matters for kids and families because this is how the government gives money to our communities, based up the number of people who live in a city or state, also called their population.

The money pays for funding for our schools and teachers, libraries, parks, health clinics, breakfast and lunch programs at some schools, and college scholarship money for

some students. The census money pays for a lot, which is why it's important for our family to participate

and for all of us to be counted. The census numbers also determine how many representatives go to Washington, D.C. to represent us in our needs.

So I live in California, and there are almost 40 million people who live in the state, which is the

largest population in the country. And California has 53 representatives out of 435, but this may change based off of the 2020 census numbers.

And change it has.

The 2020 data is in and California will lose one house seat for the first time in 170 years.

No way.

So which states are the winners and which are the losers?

Let's break it down.

The winners.

A number of southern states are adding representatives.

Texas, which was already the second most populated state behind California, will be adding two seats to give them a total of 38 reps in Congress.

Florida is not only adding a seat in the House, the state is also able to add one electoral college vote.

The lands of Sunshine and Orange's has been a key state in the last few presidential elections,

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