Posted on 01/24/2024 12:31:43 PM PST by Jacquerie
Florida’s undercount in the 2020 census may have cost the state at least one, possibly two, seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and up to $21 billion in federal funding, according to a new report by Florida TaxWatch.
The nonpartisan government watchdog group’s analysis found that an estimated 750,000 Floridians, or 3.48 percent of the state’s population, were not counted in the last census. This marked the state’s most significant census undercount in recent decades, despite efforts to improve participation rates between 2010 and 2020.
“About 320 federal programs have census-derived federal funding. These programs affect nearly every aspect of a taxpayer’s life, including job training, transportation, housing, and economic development,” reads the report. “Florida’s statistically significant census undercount costs the state about $2.1 billion per year.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thecapitolist.com ...
I’m sure it was just an accident.........................
I’m pretty sure that California ‘suffered’ a huge over-count. It’s why they still have the number of congressional seats they do, which should be 2 or 3 lower.
It’s about ‘who does the counting’.
Do illegals count?
If California and New York Didn’t count, likely repeatedly, the illegal aliens, they would have far less representatives. Compare the number of voters in a conservative district to the numbers in NY or CA liberal districts, and it’s pretty apparent citizens in liberal districts vote is more valuable, since only half or less as many in some instances are blue to elect a rep.
Federal funding for any state should be outlawed period.
<>The Supreme Court is forbidding President Donald Trump’s administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census for now. The court says the Trump administration’s explanation for wanting to add the question was “more of a distraction” than an explanation.<>
<>The court ruled 5-4 on Thursday, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the four liberals in the relevant part of the outcome.<>
https://apnews.com/u-s-supreme-court-180e25985cf64cef94d06f7d92a644e7
I’d rather have Florida’s economic policies than an extra $21 billion of federal aid.
Right! All this talk now of “maybe the census was wrong” is simply a ploy to include the millions of illegal aliens who have entered since then.
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