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In mid-March households began receiving their 2010 U.S. Census form, a 10 question survey touted as the shortest in Census history. A long, multi-faceted government campaign to promote compliance has been underway since the Fall of 2008, and census workers will begin a door-to-door enumeration efforts this month. Every ten years the Census begins amid controversy, and this year is no different, as it provokes debate about contentious issues such as immigration, race and ethnicity, and privacy rights. Latino groups have been divided, some calling for a boycott until there is comprehensive immigration reform. Questions about race and ethnicity leave many irked by terms used in the form, such as the inclusion of “Negro.” Others feel that their identity is not represented by the limited choices. For the first time ever the Census bureau has asked same sex couples to check the married box if they feel it best reflects their relationship, regardless of any legal recognition of their partnership. Many on the Right have stirred up conspiracy theories, and called for boycotts of the census for a range of reasons. GOP chairman Michael Steele said the President had plans to rig the Census. Rush Limbaugh recently stated that Republican areas are being deliberately skipped by the Census bureau. Ron Paul expressed the views of many when he denounced the longer-form 14-question American Community Survey, which is randomly sent to a limited number of residences, as insulting. Paul took a dark view of the additional questions regarding transportation habits, access to electricity and running water, and finances, saying, “One can only imagine the countless malevolent ways our federal bureaucrats could use this information.”<\/p>\n
GUEST: Richard Benjamin, Senior Fellow at Demos and author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America” <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" | the entire program In mid-March households began receiving their 2010 U.S. Census form, a 10 question survey touted as the shortest in Census history. A long, multi-faceted government campaign to promote compliance has been underway since the Fall of 2008, and census workers will begin a door-to-door enumeration efforts this month. Every ten years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}