Hi, all,

This invitation for a letter sign-on just came through - please feel free to pass along to your networks who might want to sign by Tuesday morning. FYI,

Margaret

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Subject: Coalition Letters Urging Oversight Hearings on 2020 decennial
Census Citizenship Question
From: Phil Sparks <psparks@ccmc.org>
Date: Fri, April 06, 2018 6:04 am
To: <margaret@researchallies.org>

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Colleagues,

SEIU, in partnership with The Leadership Conference, has drafted coalition letters to the committees of jurisdiction (House OGR & Senate HSGAC) calling upon them to promptly hold oversight hearings on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross’s decision to include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennial census.

As many of you know, this decision was made despite widespread objections from stakeholders, former Census Bureau directors, and career staff at the Census Bureau. We share the Secretary’s stated goal of a fair and accurate census; however, the addition of an untested citizenship question after years of careful, and costly, research, testing, and planning will compromise preparations for the 2020 Census, thereby jeopardizing the accuracy of the count in all communities—an outcome that the nation will have to live with for the next ten years.

You can view the OGR letter here and the HSGAC letter here. You can sign your organization to both letters by filling out the form located here. The deadline to sign on to the letters is April 10th, 2018 at 9 A.M. ET. The letters will be sent to the Committees shortly thereafter.

We hope that your organization will join us in calling for Congress to conduct proper oversight of this unwise decision. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact John Foti at john.foti@seiu.org.

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