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U.S. NEWS Friday 19 January 2024

Some U.S. states and NYC succeed in getting 2020 census

numbers double-checked and increased

By MIKE SCHNEIDER the wrong place,” Walter
Associated Press Schwarm, the state’s chief
Illinois is adding tens of demographer, said in an
thousands of people to its email.
population total, and Cali- ILLINOIS
fornia is getting misplaced Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker an-
sailors on an aircraft carrier nounced this month that
put in the right location, af- the nation’s sixth most pop-
ter successfully asking for a ulous state was getting an
review of their 2020 census additional 47,000 people
figures. to its population total af-
New York City also ap- ter the state asked for a
pears to have gotten an review of its census figures.
additional 1,090 people Illinois officials believed that
added to its population to- the 2020 census had over-
tal recently after asking the looked more than 40,500
Census Bureau to double- people living in care homes
check the city’s numbers or senior living facilities and
from the head count of more than 5,800 college
every U.S. resident, city of- students living in dorms, the
ficials said. governor’s office said.
The once-a-decade cen- These “group quarters”
sus produces population were among the most dif-
figures that help determine ficult places to count as
political power and the an- The sun sets behind the New York skyline, Nov. 13, 2022, as seen from Calvary Cemetery. campuses closed and
Associated Press
nual distribution of $2.8 tril- prisons and nursing homes
lion in federal funding. The federal funding. They can’t ulous state, with 38.9 mil- members get off and on were locked down at the
Census Bureau has two pro- be used to change how lion residents, it was more the ship, and that part of start of the COVID-19 pan-
grams giving governments many congressional seats about putting things in the Naval Base San Diego is in demic. The Census Bureau
opportunities to have their each state was allotted right place rather than National City, state officials created a separate pro-
population totals reviewed during the apportionment adding people. said. gram to handle these chal-
and adjusted if need be. process, nor for the data The placement of the air- The 4,000 prisoners at the lenges.
Nearly 200 requests for re- used for redrawing political craft carrier USS Abraham Mule Creek State Prison “This correction will bring
views were filed by tribal, districts. Lincoln, along with its more also were reallocated from in millions in additional
local and state govern- Here’s a look at how two than 5,000 crew members, Amador County to the city federal funding for crucial
ments for the 2020 census. of the most populous U.S. was corrected so that it’s in of Ione after California re- programs and help to en-
Changes from the reviews states, and the nation’s National City, rather than quested that change. sure future counts reflect
will be applied only to fu- largest city, had their re- in neighboring San Diego. The reviews for California the true number of Illinois
ture annual population es- views resolved recently. Although part of the ship were “just an opportunity residents,” Pritzker said in a
timates used for the rest of CALIFORNIA is located in San Diego, to suggest to the bureau statement.q
the decade in determining For the nation’s most pop- what matters is where crew that some things are in

More than 300 journalists around the world imprisoned because of

their work, report says

NEW YORK (AP) — An es- said. Each of the 17 that were
timated 320 journalists “Our research shows how held in Israel at the time of
around the world were im- entrenched authoritarian- the census were Palestin-
prisoned because of their ism is globally, with gov- ians arrested in the West
work toward the end of ernments emboldened to Bank since the start of the
2023, according to a re- stamp out critical report- war between Israel and
port issued Thursday by the ing and prevent public ac- Hamas on Oct. 7, the re-
Committee to Protect Jour- countability,” said Jodie port said.
nalists, which called it a dis- Ginsberg, the committee’s Twelve of the 17 nonlocal
turbing attempt to smother chief executive officer. journalists who CPJ says
independent voices. More than a third of the are imprisoned through-
That’s the second-highest journalists in jail accord- out the world were be-
number of jailed journal- ing to the CPJ’s Dec. 1, ing held in Russia. They
ists since the committee 2023, census were in China, include two U.S. citizens:
began its annual census in Myanmar and Belarus, the Wall Street Journal reporter
1992. It’s down from 367 in report said. Evan Gershkovich and Alsu
2022, due primarily to the Israel is tied with Iran for Kurmasheva of Radio Free
release of many in Iran, ei- sixth place, the country’s Europe/Radio Liberty, both Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich stands in a glass
cage in a courtroom at the Moscow City Court, in Moscow,
ther on bail or as they await highest ranking ever on of whom are being held in Russia, on Dec. 14, 2023.
sentencing, the committee CPJ’s annual list. pretrial detention.q Associated Press