Detroit (AP) – Detroit, which is predominantly black, became the largest city in the U.S. to support National Census count data following the 2020 census, in which the U.S. Census Bureau recognized that a higher percentage of African Americans did not it counted compared to the past decade. American Census Bureau.
Leaders of Michigan’s largest city, which is more than three-quarters black, have questioned the results of the 2020 census since last December, when they released the report estimated more than 8% of homes were counted. occupied 10 Detroit counties.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Detroit filed the challenge last week.
In a letter to the Census Bureau, Mayor Michael Dugan said Detroit is focused on insufficient resources and insufficient census producers, leading to a shortage of unoccupied homes that ten- ten thousand people.
“The Census Bureau is now responsible for setting the record,” Dugan said.
The 2020 census data showed Detroit with a population of 639,111, while the 2019 census showed that the city had a population of 670,052. The decline of 31,000 residents “is really incredible,” said Jeffrey Morenoff, a sociology professor at the University of Michigan who helped conduct the city’s population study when the report was released in December.
Detroit is no stranger to census challenges. Coleman Young, then mayor, sued after the 1990 census and the numbers were later corrected.
While the population of the United States as a whole has dropped by a small percentage, 0.24%, over a decade of population increases caused by pandemics, natural disasters, and the Trump administration’s political interference, some minority groups. It has remained unnoticed at a faster pace than in the past decade. The black population is not counted by 3.3%, those identified with other races are less than 4.3%, nearly 5% of the Hispanic population is scattered, and there are more than 5.6% of Indians in the country. ‘America lived in the reserves.
Detroit was among nearly two dozen cities and districts that asked for census data. States and municipalities have until mid-next year to appeal to the Census Bureau through a district-level resolution operation. Challenges Rarely Be Successful But the result could determine whether cities and towns get their fair share when it comes to allocating $ 1.5 trillion in federal funding annually.
In the case of Detroit, Dugan said federal funding for the past decade of the 2010 census exceeded $ 37 billion.
“Detroit’s approximately 8 percent of Detroit’s population in the 2020 census has devastating financial consequences for the city,” Dugan said.
Most of the municipalities that contradict the census data are small towns, more than half of which come from the south of the country. About half a dozen told their challenges that the prisons in their communities were neglected at the time of the count.
Residents of prisons, nursing homes and college dormitories – also known as group housing – were among the hardest to count in the 2020 census because students were sent home to campus when a pandemic began in the United States. in March 2020 while prisons and nursing homes. Homes are locked against the spread of the virus.
Because of the difficulties associated with counting these residents, the Census Bureau launched a separate program for quarterly group counting challenges last month.
Municipal leaders said a wrong number could cost them state and federal subsidies. Iowa Mayor Bennett Joe Sparks said he is concerned that the city will not receive money for two emergency power generators from the Federal Emergency Management Agency if its description numbers are incorrect.
The city’s population grew from 405 in 2010 to 347 in 2020, “and it’s very hard for me to believe it,” Sparks said.
“The population decline will negatively affect Bennett residents,” he said.
Reported by Schneider from Orlando, Florida.
Source: Huffpost
