{"id":77825,"date":"2018-02-19T13:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77825"},"modified":"2018-02-19T13:03:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T18:03:36","slug":"2020-census-will-count-troops-at-their-home-base","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77825","title":{"rendered":"2020 Census will count troops at their home base"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sends us a link to NPR<\/a> which reports that the Census Bureau has decided that they’ll count deployed troops at their home base instead of their home of record;<\/p>\n

For the last census in 2010, all overseas military personnel were counted at the address they provided at enlistment. But in 2020, deployed service members will be counted as residents of the bases or ports they were temporarily assigned away from, according to a memo released this week by the Census Bureau…For many of the communities surrounding military bases around the country, the bureau’s decision is seen as a long-awaited victory after years of advocating for a change in policy.<\/p>\n

“When those soldiers are not counted from where they’re stationed, then it has a huge economic impact on our community,” says Kelli Pendleton, president and CEO of the Christian County Chamber of Commerce in Hopkinsville, Ky., just outside of Fort Campbell.<\/p>\n

When many of the troops at the U.S. Army base were overseas during the 2010 census, an estimated 10,000 service members were not counted in Christian County, according to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., who sent a letter to the Census Bureau in support of the policy change. Instead, their numbers were directed to the population counts for the home addresses they provided when they first enlisted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That means that the census will never be correct. Troops move in and out of congressional districts daily – Congressional Districts where they never vote. I was registered to vote in my home of record for the two decades that I was in the Army, and I moved an average of every two years. This decision artificially inflates populations.<\/p>\n

Federal funding and grants for schools and roads could take a hit if there are significant population dips. But now, Pendleton says she doesn’t have to worry as much if any of Fort Campbell’s soldiers are gone again on census day 2020.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So counting a largely single, unmarried, childless demographic artificially inflates a need for Federal funding for schools. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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