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Wednesday, June 14, the U.S. Census Bureau will hold a webinar to update our estimate of how much federal funding was distributed in whole or in part using Decennial Census Programs data.
The updated funding estimate and report ? which describe the methodology used and the number of federal assistance programs that used Census Bureau data in whole or in part in fiscal year 2021 ? was done in consultation with Dr. Andrew Reamer from the George Washington Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University.?
This will be the first federal funding estimate released by the Census Bureau in nearly six years. In 2017, the Census Bureau released a working paper that found that more than $675 billion in federal funds were distributed in whole or in part using Census Bureau data in fiscal year 2015.
When:?
Tomorrow,?Wednesday, June 14 at 3 p.m. EDT?
Who:?
Albert E. Fontenot Jr., executive senior advisor for the Decennial Census Program, U.S. Census Bureau
Ceci Villa Ross, special assistant, American Community Survey Office, U.S. Census Bureau, author of the new report
Andrew Reamer, Ph.D., George Washington Institute of Public Policy, George Washington University, consultant on the upcoming report and author of Counting for Dollars 2020: The Role of the Decennial Census in the Geographic Distribution of Federal Funds?
Maria Olmedo-Malagon, chief, Office of Strategic Alliances, U.S. Census Bureau, moderator
You can also watch this event via YouTube. (Live captioning available)
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