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Judge Temporarily Halts Winding Down of Census Count | Afro

By Mike Schneider The Associated Press The U.S. Census Bureau for now must stop following a plan that would have it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September, according to a federal judge's order. U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, issued a temporary restraining […]

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