Please fill out your Census questionnaire and remind your loved ones and friends to do so.

In Texas, a 1 percent undercount in 2020 could result in a federal funding loss of at least $300 million per year over the next decade. The potential funding loss could amount to $3 billion over 10 years for each percent of the population that is not counted.

 In Texas, 25 percent of the population (over 6 million people) live in “hard-to-count” communities, where past self-response rates have been particularly low. Studies project 9 percent of the “hard-to-count” population (570,000+) will not be tallied in 2020 resulting in a loss of $2.7 billion per year in federal funding for the next decade. 

Through Census-based data, Texas received more than $5.4 billion in federal funding in the fiscal year 2018 for educational programs such as:

• National School Lunch Program: $1.5B
• Title I grants to School Districts: $1.5B
• Special education grants: $1.0B
• School Breakfast Program: $633M