Today is Census Day
Apr 1, 2010 17:47 - 0 Comments
If you haven’t filled out your 2010 Census, do it today! You can still mail it back if you haven’t already done so. The U.S. Census Bureau mailed or hand-delivered about 134 million questionnaires and only about half have been mailed back.
Each form returned by mail saves us about $57 in tax dollars because it costs about $57 per household to be visited by an enumerator. The U.S. Constitution requires an enumeration of every person living in the United States. If you don’t mail it back you will be visited by a census taker starting in May — at significant taxpayer cost. The easiest and best way to be counted in the census is to fill out and return your form by mail. If everyone mailed back a completed form the cost of administering the census would be reduced by about $1.5 billion.
“I’d like nothing more than to return money to the taxpayers following this census because they mailed back the census forms at a record rate,” said Census Bureau Director Robert Groves. “In the end, the American public’s willingness to participate in the 2010 Census will determine its success and how much money we’re able to save.”
You can check on Rockville’s progress with the interactive map here. Rockville’s currently above the national average at 62%. So 38% haven’t mailed it yet!
It’s only ten questions and takes less than 10 minutes. Just do it (if you haven’t already) and remind everyone else!
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