Podcasts Government A Cape Cod Notebook Censusing The Woods, Part 1

Censusing The Woods, Part 1

Published: April 7, 2020, 10:43 a.m.

Last Wednesday there took place a national ritual as venerable and significant as our national elections. –April 1 was the official National Census Day, the reference date for the 2020 national census, an event mandated by the U.S. Constitution to take place every ten years. It would be significant enough if only because the census determines the number of Congressional representatives each state has and also where most of the federal grant money goes.