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Last week, census takers began hand-delivering questionnaires to 12 million U.S. addresses, mostly in rural areas. This week, another 120 million U.S. residences will begin receiving the forms by mail. The 2010 census will play a critical role in determining how the federal government distributes more than $400 billion each year back to the states for critical programs in education, housing and community development, health care and transportation. More than 200,000 New Yorkers were not tallied in 2000, costing the state tens of millions of federal dollars. Another undercount may even cost us representation in Congress. Around May 1,
census workers will begin knocking on the doors of households
that have not mailed in their questionnaires or failed to
complete the form properly. It's nearly 60 times more
costly to send a census worker to your house than for you to
just send back the form in the mail.
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