Aug 6, 2021
2 min read
Census and Sensibility
Why be angry?
Today I received a letter from the U.S. Census Bureau demanding that I fill out the “American Community Survey.” I was to give information about myself, my housing situation, income, and employment to help the federal government distribute $675 billion to communities.
Not long ago I could have written a whole series of essays about how wrong this is. This requirement, which…
