What Can We Do About the Latino Undercount in the 2020 Census?

April 7, 2022

Activists rally in 2019 outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments on the Trump administration’s plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census.This Los Angeles Times article, co-authored by G. Cristina Mora, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Center for Research on Social Change, discusses the history and continuing injustice of the undercount rate of Latinos in the census. Mora details how the Trump administration halted revisions being made to improve census response rates for all groups, the consequences of this decision, and what now can be done to remedy this mistake.