Mayor enlists Brooklyn Public Library to help with 2020 Census count
Your local Brooklyn Public Library branch will be playing a pivotal role in the 2020 Census.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Aug. 1 that NYC Census 2020, the city’s census outreach campaign, is pumping $1.4 million into a partnership between the city and its three library systems — the Brooklyn Public Library, the New York Public Library and the Queens Public Library — to ensure that all New Yorkers are counted.
The federal government conducts a census once every 10 years to count the number of people in the U.S. The 2020 Census will determine where the federal government allocates more than $650 billion in funding across the country. In addition, the number of seats each state has in the House of Representatives is determined by the Census.