Legislative Alert
Letter Opposing Legislation That Would Add Citizenship Question to Census
… Dear Representative: On behalf of the 60 affiliated unions of the AFL-CIO, I urge you to oppose the deceptively named Equal Representation Act, H.R. 7109. Adding a citizenship question to the United States … system for political gain and further intimidate immigrant families. Counting every person in the country takes tremendous work, and marginalized populations are always at the greatest risk of being undercounted. Suppressing participation in the … jeopardize the fairness and accuracy of the census. We only get one chance every ten years to get this crucial process right. We cannot allow partisan politics to lead to decreased response rates, inaccurate data collection, and unjust …