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March 16, 2010

Officials Urge Participation in 2010 Census
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2010 Census forms started arriving in mailboxes Monday. The census count
determines how congressional district lines are drawn and the amount of
federal funding awarded to states. Here in New York, Sen. Kirsten
Gillibrand and New York Secretary of State Lorraine Cortes-Vazquez urged
all New York residents to fill out the forms, including undocumented
immigrants. The officials said New York City lost millions of dollars in
federal and state funding over the past decade because only 55 percent
of city residents mailed in census forms ten years ago. In Texas,
officials say over 370,000 Texans were uncounted in the 2000 Census
resulting in the loss of about $1 billion in federal funds.



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