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TALKING POINTS: Discussing the Census in Immigrant Communities
• Answering the census is completely safe. It’s illegal for the Census Bureau to share individuals’ information with anyone—including landlords and immigration agents.
• It’s easy: this year’s form is only ten questions long, and will take minutes to complete. In addition, guides on how to complete the form will available in more than 100 languages.
• The payoff is huge: over the next ten years, census data will determine how billions of federal dollars are spent around the country, and participating in the census will enable your community to receive its fair share of funding for goods and services you need.
• Census figures are used to distribute state grants to your local government for housing, schools, roads, and many other services that can benefit you, your family, and your neighborhoods in a daily basis — regardless of your citizenship status.
• Each person counted in the census means more funding for these services, and an opportunity to prevent harmful budget cuts in public education, health care and transportation.
• Help your leaders help you: Census figures determine decisions on a neighborhood level that affect your life: like where to plan parks, pick up garbage, and place new bus stops.
• Your response means expanded funding for English language and vocational programs to enable you and your children to achieve a better quality of life in the United States.
• Your participation will help attract business investment and economic opportunities to your community. If businesses receive incomplete census information, they will underestimate the economic potential of your neighborhood and create jobs elsewhere.
• This is not about government intrusion — it’s about making it easier for government to help your community recover from this economic crisis and rebuild on a stronger foundation.
• We only have one chance to get this right. Census information collected in 2010 will inform decisions about government funding and business investment for the next decade.
• Answer the 2010 Census: make sure your community’s voice is heard next year.
Read TALKING POINTS: Discussing the Census in Immigrant Communities in its entirety
• Answering the census is completely safe. It’s illegal for the Census Bureau to share individuals’ information with anyone—including landlords and immigration agents.
• It’s easy: this year’s form is only ten questions long, and will take minutes to complete. In addition, guides on how to complete the form will available in more than 100 languages.
• The payoff is huge: over the next ten years, census data will determine how billions of federal dollars are spent around the country, and participating in the census will enable your community to receive its fair share of funding for goods and services you need.
• Census figures are used to distribute state grants to your local government for housing, schools, roads, and many other services that can benefit you, your family, and your neighborhoods in a daily basis — regardless of your citizenship status.
• Each person counted in the census means more funding for these services, and an opportunity to prevent harmful budget cuts in public education, health care and transportation.
• Help your leaders help you: Census figures determine decisions on a neighborhood level that affect your life: like where to plan parks, pick up garbage, and place new bus stops.
• Your response means expanded funding for English language and vocational programs to enable you and your children to achieve a better quality of life in the United States.
• Your participation will help attract business investment and economic opportunities to your community. If businesses receive incomplete census information, they will underestimate the economic potential of your neighborhood and create jobs elsewhere.
• This is not about government intrusion — it’s about making it easier for government to help your community recover from this economic crisis and rebuild on a stronger foundation.
• We only have one chance to get this right. Census information collected in 2010 will inform decisions about government funding and business investment for the next decade.
• Answer the 2010 Census: make sure your community’s voice is heard next year.
Read TALKING POINTS: Discussing the Census in Immigrant Communities in its entirety