Sunday, September 6, 2020
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Census Bureau for the time being to stop following a plan that would have had it winding down operations in order to finish the 2020 census at the end of September.
The federal judge in San Jose, California, issued a temporary restraining order late Saturday against the Census Bureau and the Commerce Department, which oversees the agency. The order stops the Census Bureau from winding down operations until a court hearing is held on Sept. 17.
The Area Census Office (ACO-2568) near the corner of W Jefferson and N Walnut in Springfield restarted it’s operation the week of June 1 after Covid-19 slowed its activities. It has provided the area with jobs in the office and in the field as enumerators.
The head count of every U.S. resident helps determine how $1.5 trillion in federal funding is distributed and how many congressional seats each state gets.