Census 2020

December 21, 2017
The Daily Record
by Joe Nathanson

Daily Record 2017 12-21 Census 2020

“The U. S. Constitution, in Article 1, Section 2, set in motion the process of counting all of the nation’s inhabitants every 10 years. In calling for this census, our founding document states: “The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years.” While Thomas Jefferson, in his capacity as secretary of state, was nominally in charge of conducting the first census in 1790, the actual enumeration was conducted by U.S. marshals of the respective judicial districts. The responsibility for carrying out the decennial census now resides with the Bureau of the Census, housed in the Department of Commerce…”