{"id":1292,"date":"2020-04-01T18:49:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T18:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2022-08-17T15:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T20:27:48","slug":"the-census-bureau-is-required-by-law-to-finish-the-2020-census-by-december-31-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/the-census-bureau-is-required-by-law-to-finish-the-2020-census-by-december-31-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"The Census Bureau is required by law to finish the 2020 Census by December 31, 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Census Bureau (Bureau) is required by law to finish the 2020 Census and deliver the count of the population to the President by December 31, 2020. <\/strong>At the same time, the Bureau must address the risks presented by the global spread of COVID-19.\u00a0 On March 18, the Bureau announced it would suspend field operations and hiring, onboarding, and training of census workers until April 1 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>On March 28, the Bureau further suspended these operations until April 15.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Here is info and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.gao.gov\/2020\/04\/01\/census-operations-during-covid-19\/?utm_campaign=usgao_email&amp;utm_content=daybook&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how to report online<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why a complete count of the census is important to businesses:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provides\u00a0the basis for distributing grants for economic development and inform business decisions, such as local business expansion.<\/li>\n<li>Creates\u00a0projections of growth and help you identify prime locations to open new operations or shut old ones.<\/li>\n<li>Helps\u00a0business owners enhance hiring practices and identify skilled workers.<\/li>\n<li>Offers\u00a0valuable information on your customer base, including income levels, household size, and homeownership, which can further inform business strategies such as pricing and locations.<\/li>\n<li>Determines\u00a0how much funding your community receives and its representation in government.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census Bureau (Bureau) is required by law to finish the 2020 Census and deliver the count of the population to the President by December 31, 2020. At the same&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legislation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24170,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions\/24170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wbdc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}