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Census Day arrives with US almost paralyzed by coronavirus

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press
Eds: UPDATES: This story has been updated to add link to
earlier story about outreach efforts. With AP Photo.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Census Day — the date used to
reference where a person lives for the once-a-decade
count — arrived Wednesday with a nation almost para-
lyzed by the spread of the novel coronavirus. But census
officials vowed the job would be completed by its year-
end deadline. The virus’s spread has forced the U.S. Cen-
sus Bureau to suspend field operations for a month, from
mid-March to mid-April, when the hiring process would
be ramping up for up to 500,000 temporary census ta-
kers. The bureau also has delayed the start of counts for
the homeless and people living in group quarters like col-
lege dorms and nursing homes, and has pushed back the
deadline for wrapping up the head count from the end
of July to mid-August. The Census Bureau is required by
federal statute to send the president the counts that will
be used to carve up congressional districts — a process This March 16, 2020, file photo shows the Oculus at the World Trade Center’s transportation hub in
known as apportionment — and draw state legislative New York. Census Day, the April 1 reference day for the once-a-decade effort to count everyone
districts by Dec. 31. Some groups are suggesting that the in the U.S., arrived Wednesday with a nation almost paralyzed by the spread of the novel corona-
deadline be pushed back, though it’s currently manda- virus, but census officials vowed the job would be completed by its year-end deadline.
ted by federal law. Continued on Page 25 (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)Associated Press