Stop. Census Time!
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The U.S. Census Bureau launched a national road tour Monday to drum up participation in the decennial population count, bringing Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other 21st century technology to the centuries-old exercise.
The road tour, billed as the largest civic outreach campaign in the bureau's history, features 13 vans that will bring census information and interactive displays across 150,000 miles for 1,547 days with 800 publicity stops at parades, festivals and major sporting events such as the Super Bowl and NCAA Final Four basketball tournament.
Census data are used to allocate more than $400 billion in federal funds; apportion legislative seats; and determine where hospitals, schools and businesses are needed.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-census5-2010jan05,0,842867.st...
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Cory_Hurley
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Well now. I know plenty of people who have multiple popular networking-site accounts under fake names just to avoid there significant other. I do not condone this behavior but how is the Census going to use Youtube and Twitter to get their information? Are we going to start having our e-mail in-boxes filled with new messeges that have "Important Census Information" in the subject line? I think not! Eh. In any case my in-box is full as it is.
- 2 years ago
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Cory_Hurley
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grassroutes
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Cory_Hurley:
As I understand it from the article, its a get out-the-word effort at this stage. Census doesn't get started until April 1st. Census is trying to get citizens and non citizens to register because the prescence of undocumented foreign nationals skews a signifigant amount of government data for important statistics(welfare, crime, healthcare)
The idea, again as i understand it, is to spread the word. Im not saying its going to work, but if you think back to the election and how instrumental internet media was in getting Obama elected its easy to see why they might want to tap into this method.
- 2 years ago
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grassroutes
