Responding to census benefits all SOME people are refusing to return census forms, even though that is required by law.
Some politicians haven t helped matters.
Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush said he wasn t sure he would answer all the questions. Good reasons exist to cooperate. A big enough boycott could affect how federal money, programs and services are divvied up. Census workers are redoubling their efforts to make sure that everyone is counted which wasn t the case in 1990 so that every city and region gets its fair share of federal help. The Census is a statistical snapshot of the United States.