Census Will Undercount Millions of Latinos

A new Harvard study finds the Trump administration’s proposal to ask a citizenship question on the 2020 U.S. census could lead to an undercount of some 4.2 million among Hispanics, “costing their communities federal aid and political representation,” Reuters reports.

The researchers admitted the study may have even undersold the impact of the question: “Not only are we university affiliated academic researchers, and not the U.S. Government… but our respondents were paid panelists and thus financially incentivized to complete the survey.”