Atlanta wants to make sure children get counted in the 2020 Census. The city has launched its “Kids Count Too” campaign.
Angela Brown, who heads the city’s initiative to get the word out about the 2020 count, said for some caretakers it’s unclear who should put children on census forms.
“Sometimes parents are divorced, and one parent thinks the other is going to count the child. And so it ends up the child falls through the cracks,” Brown said. “Sometimes kids are staying with their grandparents … sometimes with their aunties. And so sometimes people don’t know to add the child to the Census as well.”
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