8.5.2020 What are you waiting for? Montgomery County to lose $4.6 billion in construction funds

The families that have not responded to the census will cause Montgomery County to lose $4.6 billion in construction funds

 

Data resources from Lifang and 2020 Census newsletter as below

62.6% of all households in the country have responded to the 2020 Census. Here in Montgomery County, our response rate is 72.8% and we rank 5th in the State. This means more than 1 in 4 households have not yet responded to the Census which could mean Montgomery County could lose 4.6 billion dollars in federal and state funds over the next 10 years for hospitals, schools, roads and social services. We need your help to ensure over 250,000 people are counted by August 11 which is when the Census Bureau will follow-up with households who have not yet responded.

 

We are hosting a number of outreach activities during Census Weekend such as joining food distribution events across the County with a special target on undercounted communities and hard-to-count Census tracts (neighborhoods). While everyone has until October 31 to complete their Census, August 11 is the date when households who have not responded will start to receive phone calls and visits from Census Bureau representatives to collect information.  We need to encourage all of our communities to respond before follow-up begins.

 

 

See Data Tables

Based on responses collected July 9 through July 14, the Household Pulse Survey estimates that during the COVID-19 pandemic:

• • 51.1% of American adults live in households which have experienced a loss in employment income
• • 35.2% of American adults expect to experience a loss in employment income
• • 12.1% of Americans lived in households where there was either sometimes or often not enough to eat in the previous 7 days
• • 40.1% of adults had delayed getting medical care in the previous 4 weeks
• • 26.2% of respondents reported having little interest or pleasure in doing things more than half the days/nearly every day last week
• • 24.8% of respondents reported feeling down more than half the days/nearly every day last week
• • 33.9% of respondents reported feeling anxious or nervous more than half the days/nearly every day last week
• • On average, households spent $211.34 a week to buy food at supermarkets, grocery stores, online, and other places to be prepared and eaten at home
• • 26.5% of adults either missed last month’s rent or mortgage payment, or had slight or no confidence that their household could make the next payment on time