2020 Census Hard To Count Map & the Asian American Community

The 2020 Census could miss millions of immigrants and others who are historically hard to count, affecting everything from seats in Congress to federal funds for education. Because of this, officials and groups from New York to California are using The City University of New York’s interactive Census mapping tool to focus their efforts on neighborhoods that will be the hardest to count. Steven Romalewski, Director of the CUNY Mapping Service, will discuss the Census 2020 Hard To Count Map, how it works, and the efforts by CUNY to ensure a fair and accurate count through the New York City Complete Count Fund, Get Out the Count events, and the CUNY Census Corps.

The Asian American Federation, a recipient of the New York City Complete Count Fund, serves as a Census Information Center (CIC) to facilitate community access to census data, to assist community members with the decennial Census or the American Community Survey, as well as to produce and disseminate demographic profiles of Asian Americans in the region. Howard Shih, Research and Policy Director at the Asian American Federation, will discuss efforts by the New York Asian Pacific American (APA) Complete Count Committee to ensure that everyone within the APA community (where 70% are immigrants), especially those in hard to count tracts, are counted in the 2020 Census.