Amid the coronavirus outbreak, grassroots groups, faith leaders and national voting rights organizations have shifted gears in their Census outreach campaigns.
is still important, and they're hoping people hear the message and fill out the forms while confined to their homes. The decennial count is used to distribute federal funds for schools, roads, bridges and lunch programs. It’s also used to determine the number of House seats a state has in Congress.
For When We All Vote, a nonprofit civic engagement group launched in 2018 by Michelle Obama, Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and others, and media company ATTN that effort means turning to famous co-chairs to help make the pitch in a video released Wednesday.Hanks, who himself had the coronavirussaid in a statement. “Participate in the 2020 Census online, over the phone, or by mail.
The coronavirus outbreak has already had a major impact on Census operations. Invitations to respond to the Census by phone, online or by mail arrived in most households by mid March, when many states began announcingo knock on doors, as well as the deadline for people to respond to the survey from July 31 to Aug. 14. It also twice delayed the start of some field operations. This weekend, it pushed that start back again to April 15.
Last week, a coalition of national civil rights and voting rights group hosted a series of virtual events during what they called"Black Census Week" because of the outbreak.
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