Bureau Director Sends Additional Resources For Montana Census
In total, Montana will see the addition of more than 250 enumerators working to count Montanans to ensure that Montana is properly represented in the 2020 census. The deadline to complete the census is Oct. 31.
U.S. Senator Steve Daines announced Sept. 16 that he has successfully secured additional support and resources from the Trump administration to improve Montana’s census count.
“Montana has so much at stake for the 2020 census including access to federal resources and even the potential for more representation in Congress,” Daines said. “I’m glad to see the Trump administration act on my request to send more resources to our state to ensure Montanans are properly represented for the next decade.”
In early Sept., Daines sent a letter urging the administration to direct additional census resources to Montana in the final weeks of the field data collection operation to ensure all Montanans are represented.
“We currently have 1,094 census takers actively working in Montana,” said U.S. Census Bureau director Steven D. Dillingham. “We are moving in more staff to Montana from other areas where the work is nearly complete, as you suggested. So far, 119 additional census takers have been assigned to work in Montana. We also hired 48 more locally over the last week, for a total of 167 additional staff. We will continue to add more, and we will keep you updated on that progress.”
Much of Montana remains historically undercounted. Ensuring an accurate census count is critical to potentially gaining additional Congressional representation and securing additional federal resources for Montana communities.
To read the response from the administration visit daines.senate.gov/ imo/media/doc/Census.pdf.
