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Article: Community-based Programs and Local Commitment Increases Census Participation, Los Angeles Leaders Tell Census Monitoring Board
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- June 26, 2000
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LOS ANGELES, June 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The members of the
bipartisan U.S. Census Monitoring Board today heard local officials
and community leaders detail their efforts to ensure greater census
participation among the large and diverse population of the Los
Angeles area.
Their comments came during a public hearing held by the Board to
gather information on innovative programs and activities that
improved the local census count.
Testimony from the Los Angeles hearing will be used in a future
report to Congress by the Board, which was established by Congress
in 1997 to monitor the preparation and implementation of the 2000
decennial census. The Board is comprised of eight members -- four ...