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‘They’re cutting 30% of the time that we have left’: Census outreach goes into overdrive

South Kensington Community Partners

Ximena Conde, WHYY

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Census advocates in Philadelphia and Camden are working overtime after learning that their deadline has been moved up by a whole month. Outreach workers, who were already canvassing around the clock in intense summer heat, received another in a long series of blows this week when the U.S. Census Bureau announced it would end all counting efforts by Sept. 30.
“They’re cutting 30% of the time that we have left, and that’s a big deal,” said Stephanie Reid, executive director of PhillyCounts. Right now, 66% of Pennsylvanians have filled out the census, while only 52% of Philadelphians have done so — a disparity seen in other large cities.

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