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Gazette Article on Census 2010 Event Hosted by Congresswoman Edwards

Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
Groups discuss census outreach strategy
Local participation encouraged to get federal funding

by Zoe Tillman | Staff Writer

Speaking just a few blocks away from Census Bureau headquarters in Suitland, U.S. Rep. Donna Edwards (D-Dist. 4) of Fort Washington asked several dozen community leaders gathered at her office Jan. 6 to consider how their communities could use a piece of the $400 billion pie of annual federal funding that will be given out based on the 2010 census.

 

"It's really important that [the count is] accurate," Edwards said, adding that if communities are undercounted and don't get the federal funding they need, cash-strapped local governments, nonprofit organizations and other groups will have "to take up that slack."

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