After announcing they would celebrate Census Day (April 1) by mobilizing LGBTQ people to be counted in the 2020 Census, the National LGBTQ Task Force has created a pledge for LGBTQ people to sign.
Census data is used to defend civil rights and distribute funding for programs like food stamps, public housing, Medicaid and HIV programs, homelessness assistance programs, and more. “The LGBTQ community is disproportionately likely to need and use these programs, especially those of us with multiple marginalized identities,” the pledge reads. “We can’t let our communities be left out!” Specific populations are always undercounted in the Census, which only happens every ten years.
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