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Counting Everyone Because Everyone Counts: The Value Of Census Data For Local Decision Making, Uma Krishnan
Counting Everyone Because Everyone Counts: The Value Of Census Data For Local Decision Making, Uma Krishnan
Metroscape
Once every ten years the US Census Bureau conducts the decennial United States census, and 2020 is the year. The census is a national effort to count everyone in the United States. Unfortunately, this year the COVID-19 pandemic has captured the nation’s attention even as the 2020 census struggles to claim relevance and broaden its reach. At the same time, census data has emerged as a critical tool for examining stark inequities in the demographics of who is contracting and dying of COVID-19. This year, counting everyone is more important than ever.
The Landscape: Making Oregon Count In 2020, Mac Cunningham
The Landscape: Making Oregon Count In 2020, Mac Cunningham
Metroscape
In our increasingly polarized national environment, the census remains one of the few tasks that all United States residents share in common. The results of the census will have implications for the decade to come.
Mandated by Article I of the United States Constitution, the census is the largest peacetime mobilization in the country. Conducted at the start of each new decade, the census is an effort by the government to count every resident in the United States at the location where each person usually lives. While this once-a-decade survey might seem labor intensive, the results of the census impact …
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Show Us The Money, Portland State University. Population Research Center
Indicators Of The Metroscape: Show Us The Money, Portland State University. Population Research Center
Metroscape
Chart showing census-based allocation for Medicare, Medicaid and other programs (2017), for each of the United States.
The Census Is Political: Hard-To-Count Communities Must Be Reached, We Count Oregon, Julia Michel
The Census Is Political: Hard-To-Count Communities Must Be Reached, We Count Oregon, Julia Michel
Metroscape
We Count Oregon is the first woman-of-color-led statewide census campaign in Oregon purposefully designed to undermine exclusionary census norms. The We Count Oregon 2020 campaign reflects the values, cultures, and needs of hard-to- count communities. In Oregon, these are primarily communities of color (including Black, Asian and Pacific Islanders, Latinx, Indigenous and native communities), LGBTQI communities, children under the age of five, disabled people, rural communities, and people experiencing homelessness. Hard-to- count communities in Oregon had less than a 73 percent self-response return rate in the 2010 census. Due to the history of the census and a variety of contemporary …
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Counting Oregon, Mac Cunningham, Xi Wei, Randy Morris
Periodic Atlas Of The Metroscape: Counting Oregon, Mac Cunningham, Xi Wei, Randy Morris
Metroscape
Every United States census has challenges ensuring that every person responds and is counted. Individuals who are missed in the census count or “undercounted” for various reasons are often referred to as “hard-to-count” populations. Hard-to-count populations include rural residents, people of color, immigrants, people experiencing homelessness, children under age five, renters, and more.
For the 2010 census, the final mail return rate in Oregon was 76 percent. Census tracts with a mail return response rate of 76 percent or less are highlighted on the map on this page. Response rates closest to the state’s final response rate are light yellow, …
Preserving Small Farms In Gales Creek, Oregon: An Interview With Gales Creek Residents, Nathan Williams
Preserving Small Farms In Gales Creek, Oregon: An Interview With Gales Creek Residents, Nathan Williams
Metroscape
Nathan Williams conducts interviews with several residents of rural Gales Creek, Oregon, discussing the problems faced by small farmers and challenges for farmland preservation.
Women In The Trades: An Interview With Connie Ashbrook And Nora Mullane, Liza Morehead
Women In The Trades: An Interview With Connie Ashbrook And Nora Mullane, Liza Morehead
Metroscape
Liza Morehead interviews Connie Ashbrook and Nora Mullane.
Connie Ashbrook is the Executive Director and founder of Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc., Previous to her years with OTI, she worked in the trades for seventeen years as a dump truck driver, carpenter apprentice, and elevator constructor. She was the first woman in Oregon to become licensed as an elevator mechanic.
Nora Mullane has been a union journey-person carpenter, general contractor, building inspector, and City of Portland Bureau of Developments Services supervisor. Nora says that successfully completing her carpenter’s apprenticeship program has served her well throughout her entire career, and life in general, …