This morning Cedric Grant, director of the Office of Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships in President Obama’s Commerce Department, hosted a roundtable on Census 2010 at the Urban League of Metropolitan St. Louis.
Grant is part of a national effort by the Census to meet with key community partners and Complete Count Committee members to discuss what’s at stake in the decennial Census.
In particular, the roundtable called attention to core strategies being implemented to reach hard-to-count communities in the region. Roundtable participants, including James H. Buford of the Urban League and two City aldermen, have been engaged in raising Census awareness in the area.
“A lot is at stake and we are engaged, articulate and doing everything effectively to reach out on the importance of Census 2010,” Grant said.
The 2010 Census is a count of everyone living in the United States and is mandated by the U.S. Constitution. Census data are used to determine the number of congressional seats by state and how more than $400 billion in federal funds to local, state, and tribal governments are allocated each year.
For more information about the 2010 Census, visit www.census.gov.