But the census is far more than a meaningless bureaucratic exercise. It has a massive impact on all of us and the way we live. It is also used to distribute our 435 U.S. congressional seats. States with a higher population have more congressional seats. A state could gain or lose a congressional district, and the powerful vote that goes along with it, depending on the census outcome.
American workers have a tremendous stake in the outcome of the next census.
Capital construction and economic development projects that provide thousands of jobs could be given the green light or stalled indefinitely, depending on census data. Accuracy has been a big problem for the census in past years. The 1990 census missed more than 8 million people and double counted more than 4 million. This miscount resulted in a diminished political voice for a significant sector of the population, as well as billions of dollars in lost federal funding. Not on your life.