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Central Pennsylvania has huge groups of students (at universities like Penn State) and rural residents. The census generally has a hard time getting these groups to submit forms so it's trying some new strategies...
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After the year 2000 Census, Pennsylvania lost TWO seats in Congress! So it’s important to count everyone in THIS year’s census. But some groups in Central Pennsylvania tend to be “hard to count.” WPSU’s Cynthia Berger looked at the ways the Census Bureau is reaching out to count everyone.
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After the year 2000 Census, Pennsylvania lost TWO seats in Congress! So it’s important to count everyone in THIS year’s census. But some groups in Central Pennsylvania tend to be “hard to count.” WPSU’s Cynthia Berger looked at the ways the Census Bureau is reaching out to count everyone.
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