In this Oct. 29, 2019, photo, provided by Itha Cao, Jasmine Cho sits with all her cookie decorating supplies at a census awareness event at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh. The coronavirus has waylaid efforts to get as many people as possible to take part in the census. Pittsburgh had commissioned Cho, who uses cookie decorating to highlight Asian American and social justice issues, to lead decorating workshops with a census theme. An October session drew almost 50 people…
March 28, 2020
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Texts, not door-knocks: Census outreach shifts amid virus
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — In tiny Munfordville, Kentucky, the closure of the public library has cut people off from a computer used only for filling out census forms online. In Minneapolis, a concert promoting the once-a-decade count is now virtual. In Orlando, Florida, advocates called off knocking on doors in a neighborhood filled with new residents from Puerto Rico.