Political Junky
Gold Member
- May 27, 2009
- 25,793
- 3,990
- 280
Officials: Low census returns may mean less funding, representation for Dallas-Fort Worth 12:15 PM CT | News for Dallas, Texas | Dallas Morning News | Fort Worth News
12:29 PM CDT on Thursday, April 1, 2010
By ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]
North Texas elected officials today said theyre concerned about low census response rates in parts of the state and urged residents to return their census forms as soon as possible.
So far this year, Texas has one of the lowest mail-participation rates in the country. As of this morning, 46 percent of Texans had mailed back their census forms, compared with 52 percent nationally, according to the Census Bureaus Web site.
Census numbers are used to distribute congressional seats and to divvy up hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds to local governments each year. A more complete headcount will help Dallas-Fort Worth capture more federal funding, said the officials, who gathered this morning at a census office in Dallas' Stemmons Corridor.
Were talking about federal funds and were talking about representation, said Pauline Medrano, a Dallas City Council member. Our voice in this community must be heard. It is about power, and it is about federal funding and we must make sure that our North Texas region ... is well-represented.
<more>
12:29 PM CDT on Thursday, April 1, 2010
By ERIC AASEN / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]
North Texas elected officials today said theyre concerned about low census response rates in parts of the state and urged residents to return their census forms as soon as possible.
So far this year, Texas has one of the lowest mail-participation rates in the country. As of this morning, 46 percent of Texans had mailed back their census forms, compared with 52 percent nationally, according to the Census Bureaus Web site.
Census numbers are used to distribute congressional seats and to divvy up hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds to local governments each year. A more complete headcount will help Dallas-Fort Worth capture more federal funding, said the officials, who gathered this morning at a census office in Dallas' Stemmons Corridor.
Were talking about federal funds and were talking about representation, said Pauline Medrano, a Dallas City Council member. Our voice in this community must be heard. It is about power, and it is about federal funding and we must make sure that our North Texas region ... is well-represented.
<more>
