Census launches faith-based initiative

MyWestTexas.com
So while Census Day, when all responses are due, won’t arrive until April 1, local workers already are preparing to reach Midland’s population groups. It launched a faith-based initiative outreach Friday asking local churches to urge members to participate in the Census. It also has partnered with Midland Independent School District and Midland College to recruit potential employees and to spread the word the 10-question survey should be arriving in mail boxes starting in March.
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“You’d be surprised how many people don’t even know we have a Census,” McBride said.

The Census is important, McBride said, because its numbers help determine how about $300 billion in federal funds are awarded each year. It also determines the number of representatives a state will have in the U.S. House and is useful in state and community planning that ranges from redistricting — as will occur in Texas during the next legislative session — to building new roads and schools.