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Civics Class, Friday, November 30, 2018
"Tony offers his apologies for missing class," Steve began with a smile. "He has a board meeting that he absolutely couldn't get out of."
He leaned back against the desk. "The elections are finally over, so that means it's time to turn our attention to other civic matters. And since we're entering the holiday season that prominently features a census as part of the tale, let's talk about our census." He smiled again. "I promise not to make it too boring. It is Constitutional mandated that the government do a complete count of everyone in the country--men, women, children, undocumented immigrants, homeless populations, everyone, every ten years. And those numbers are crucial in deciding small things like the number of Congressional districts a state gets, how much money gets allocated for schools versus hospitals versus public housing projects, and so on, and so on. Naturally, this current administration is doing absolutely unconscionable things like trying to stick a citizenship question onto the questionnaire, or sending up a trial balloon about 'how about we share this highly sensitive information with law enforcement groups' in, I believe, an effort to depress the number of minorities who fill out the census when it's time. Again, these numbers are used to decide funding and how Congressional districts are allocated and if there isn't an accurate count, there won't be enough money sent to those areas and they won't have the representation they deserve."
He grinned. "Luckily for all of you graduating in the next few years, they'll be hiring Census takers--money's pretty good from what I remember. So? What questions do you think should be on a census questionnaire? What does the government need to know to better serve its population?"
He leaned back against the desk. "The elections are finally over, so that means it's time to turn our attention to other civic matters. And since we're entering the holiday season that prominently features a census as part of the tale, let's talk about our census." He smiled again. "I promise not to make it too boring. It is Constitutional mandated that the government do a complete count of everyone in the country--men, women, children, undocumented immigrants, homeless populations, everyone, every ten years. And those numbers are crucial in deciding small things like the number of Congressional districts a state gets, how much money gets allocated for schools versus hospitals versus public housing projects, and so on, and so on. Naturally, this current administration is doing absolutely unconscionable things like trying to stick a citizenship question onto the questionnaire, or sending up a trial balloon about 'how about we share this highly sensitive information with law enforcement groups' in, I believe, an effort to depress the number of minorities who fill out the census when it's time. Again, these numbers are used to decide funding and how Congressional districts are allocated and if there isn't an accurate count, there won't be enough money sent to those areas and they won't have the representation they deserve."
He grinned. "Luckily for all of you graduating in the next few years, they'll be hiring Census takers--money's pretty good from what I remember. So? What questions do you think should be on a census questionnaire? What does the government need to know to better serve its population?"
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