Students work to increase census response rates in Berkeley
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Census data is used to determine how more than $675 billion is distributed to states and, consequently, how much money local governments and basic needs programs receive, according to campus graduate student Mansi Kathuria, census project director at the UC Berkeley Public Service Center. (Photo by Flickr under CC BY 2.0.)
With the Sept. 30 census deadline fast approaching, student-led census efforts are using the remaining week to increase response rates throughout Berkeley.
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