Rumble, the mascot of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA basketball team, holds signs encouraging participation in the U.S. Census, at a drive-thru Census Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA) event outside the state Capitol in Oklahoma City in September. Sue Ogrocki/AP
GovExec Daily: The Census Deadline
Eric Katz joins the podcast to discuss the Census Bureau's work on the 2020 count.
Because of the barrage of news this year, you might be excused from knowing that the decennial census is going on. The novel coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into the count, as it was supposed to be over by Oct 1.
The deadline came and went, with lawsuits keeping the count going for enumerators and the Bureau. Eric Katz is covering the 2020 census and he joined the program to talk about its status.
