Black people, Latinos, and Native Americans were undercounted during the United States 2020 national census, new US Census Bureau data showed, potentially affecting political representation and federal funding for communities with significant minority populations.The once-a-decade nationwide population count is used to draw US legislative maps in each of the 50 US states, as well as to help distribute billions in federal funds for everything from public housing to health care and highway construction.For decades, the census has overcounted white people while undercounting people of colour, but those trends accelerated during the 2020 census, according to Census Bureau statistical analyses designed to test the accuracy of the census results.
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