Programs #1 Medical Assistance #2 SNAP #3 Highways #4 Pell Grants #5 School Lunches The federal government uses Census data to decide where to spend money.
What are they counting?
What are they counting?
Children’s Programs • School Lunch Program • Special Education Grants • Head Start • Title I Grants • Foster Care Title IV-E • Child Care and Development Fund Flowery Branch Elementary School
Pell Grants Gainesville High School
Housing Assistance • Housing Assistance Payments Programs • Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers GainesvilleHousing.org
Senior Services • Low-Income Home Energy Assistance • Federal Medical Assistance Programs, like Medicaid • Medicare Part B Physicians Fee Schedule Services Ninth District Opportunity
Federal Transit Formula Grants • Gainesville Connection • Hall Area Transit – Dial-A-Ride Hall Area Transit
Highway Planning and Construction • 45 projects in past 5 years • Dawsonville Highway Bridge • Browns Bridge Road Bridge • Highlands to Islands Trail in Midtown Gainesville Georgia Dept. of Transportation
Disaster Recovery Grants The Times
Businesses Kubota
Work for Census • usajobs.gov (corporate jobs) • 2020census.gov/jobs (field jobs)
How does it work? • Mid-March: Households receive postcard with instructions. • “Person 1” fills out form online, by mail, or phone. • “Person 1” answers questions for EVERYONE living in that household ON THAT DATE.
Library Census Stations Hall County Library System will host Census Stations to provide online access to all.
What will they ask? • Why? To ensure that each Name person is only counted once.
What will they ask? • Why? To provide a snapshot of Relationship to Person 1. American life in 2020. • Why? To identify needed social services.
What will they ask? • Why? To allocate education Sex funding based on gender. • Why? To enforce rules against gender-biased discrimination.
What will they ask? Race and ethnicity • Is this person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? • What is this person’s race?
What will they ask? Race and ethnicity • Why? To ensure equal opportunity. • Is this person of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? • Why? To determine need for certain • What is this person’s race? government programs.
What will they ask? • Why? The Census Bureau considers Hispanic origin “Hispanic or Latino” to be a cultural characteristic, not a race. • There is a write-in option.
What will they ask? Race – 15 racial categories, as well as ethnicity/origin • White • Native Hawaiian • Black/African American • Samoan • American Indian/Alaska • Chamorro Native • Other Asian (write-in) • Chinese • Other Pacific Islander • Filipino (write-in) • Asian Indian • Some other race (write- in) • Vietnamese • Korean • Japanese
Do I have to respond? • The United States Code requires Census participation. • If you do not answer all the questions on the Census form, a Census employee will visit your house.
Is my information safe? By law, your Census form • Can only be used to produce statistics. • Cannot be used to identify you. • Cannot be used against you.
We Count! HallCountyCensus2020.org
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