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Article: MAYOR NEWSOM KICKS-OFF SAN FRANCISCO'S 2010 CENSUS EFFORTS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 1, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 27 -- The office of the San Francisco Mayor issued the following news release:
Today, Mayor Gavin Newsom issued an Executive Directive authorizing the Office of Civic Engagement and Immigrant Affairs to oversee the city's census efforts, launched the 2010 Census Complete Count Committee, co-sponsored a resolution urging the federal government to recognize same-sex couples in the 2010 Census count, and announced plans to send a letter to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce calling for adequate local funding for outreach.
"Over the last decade, San Francisco lost millions of dollars in federal money because our city's population was undercounted by the federal government in the ...