As Legal Battle Persists, Census Citizenship Question Is Put To The Test
Close to a half million households in most of the U.S. are receiving letters for a last-minute experiment gauging how adding a citizenship question could affect how people respond to the 2020 census.
The courts have yet to issue their final word on whether the Trump administration can add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
But starting Thursday, the Census Bureau is asking about a quarter million households in the U.S. to fill out questionnaires that include the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?"
The forms are part of a last-minute, nine-week experiment the federal government is using to gauge how the public could react next year to census forms with the potential census question.
Around 480,000 households in most parts of the U.S., except Puerto Rico and, the .
