Newark and Jersey City Scramble To Get Everyone Counted As Census Window Closes

Getting people to respond to the Census in denser, low-income communities is always a challenge, but with a pandemic and a shortened counting window forced by the Trump Administration, it’s become even harder. 

The Trump Administration slashed the Census counting deadline by four weeks; counting efforts will now end Sept. 30. But cities like Newark and Jersey City still lag behind the state’s Census response rate of 66 percent and in some pockets, seven in 10 households have yet to respond. 

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