Census outreach focuses on fears of minorities
Quick ReadBecause the Census has historically undercounted minorities, immigrants and the poor, getting the count right can even be seen as a matter of civil rights.
Photo credit: Photo by Gordon M. Grant | Luis De Aguas, right, a volunteer with Organizacion Latino Americana, or OLA of Eastern Long Island, fills bags with census information at a community fair to kick off the upcoming census. (March 5, 2010)
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Omar Henriquez stood before about 40 people at a luncheon in Hempstead recently and raised the thorny issue of the moment: Many people in the minority community view the upcoming census with suspicion - even fear.
Some may be anxious because they live in illegal housing. Others, because they are undocumented immigrants. Some simply distrust government.
"The fears are unfounded," Henriquez,...
