For the 2020 Census, 4.5 million children live in areas that are hard-to-count.
Georgia is one of the states most at risk for a miscount, according to the Urban Institute. That’s because of the state’s changing demographics. Children under the age of five are especially at risk of being undercounted.
In the last Census, one million children under the age of five were undercounted.
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