Census 2020
The Brooklyn Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) works to defend the social, economic, political and legal rights of people of color by raising awareness and taking direct action in the electoral and legislative process with the goal of eradicating race-based discrimination. Our focus for the 21st century is voter registration and engagement and full participation in the decennial census.
We are tasked with preventing an undercount of the Black community and increasing the 2020 Census response rate in Central Brooklyn’s “Hard to Count” (HTC) communities of color. Each year, based on census data, the federal government spends $675 billion dollars (now estimated at $1.3 trillion) to pay for nurses, doctors, health benefits, affordable and emergency housing, teachers, bus and train lines, transportation infrastructure, senior services, infants and youth services, climate emergency care, and more. Communities that are undercounted do not get their fair share of these resources.
