This week we discuss the 2020 Census: What You Need To Know with guest Jeri Green, advisor to the National Urban League on the upcoming 2020 Census, and former senior advisor for civic engagement in the Office of the Director at the U.S. Census Bureau. The host for this episode is Don Cravins, Jr., Senior Vice President for Policy and Executive Director of the Washington Bureau.   From the National Urban League, For The Movement discusses persistent policy, social, and civil rights issues affecting communities of color.   Mentioned in this Episode: March for Our Lives Gun Control The Children’s Crusade American Youth Congress U.S. Census Bureau history Why the census is important How the census is conducted What’s the census data is used for Concerns about the upcoming census rollout 2020 Census is underfunded and understaffed Internet-based census concerns Addressing hard to count communities Preserving the integrity of upcoming census The problem with the census citizenship status question The issue with counting prisoners where they are incarcerated instead of where they are from Ensuring full participation of people of color in the census Ensuring resources are allocated to communities of color Undercount of children in census Confidentiality of census data Census Bureau is without a director Rhode Island census testing site Congress members William Lacy Clay and Yvette Clarke introduced a bill to address census issues Quad County Urban League   Contact and Follow Web: #ForTheMovement Email: podcast@nul.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/NULpolicy Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NULPolicy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/NULPolicy Marc’s Twitter: @MarcMorial Don’s Twitter: @DCravins Kim’s Twitter: @kayellea Jordun’s Twitter: @_jordun