{"id":385347,"date":"2010-03-03T14:18:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef01310f5a1fe1970c"},"modified":"2010-03-03T14:18:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T19:18:38","slug":"daley-urges-humboldt-park-resident-to-fill-out-census-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/385347","title":{"rendered":"Daley urges Humboldt Park resident to fill out census forms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by Hal Dardick<\/em> at 1:20 p.m.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Mayor Richard Daley continued his census push today in Humboldt Park, where officials believe residents were undercounted in the last U.S. Census.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what status you are, you have to be counted,\u201d Daley said at Humboldt Park&#8217;s city library. \u201cIf the data is not correct, Chicago will be short-changed not for one year, but for 10 years.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Ald. Roberto Maldonado, 26th, said it&#8217;s OK to be counted &quot;because that means that we can get more federal funding for public health, public safety and for the schools of our children.\u201d<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Maldonado and Ald. George Cardenas, 12th \u2014 whose wards include large numbers of Latinos\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0 said\u00a0 immigrants sometimes fear taking part in the census, for fear of deportation, being arrested or even being penalized for having too many people living in a home.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor stressed that all census data is confidential and cannot be used in those ways against folks who take part in the count. \u201cIt\u2019s never been abused in the past,\u201d he added.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>\u201cHistorically, immigrants, because of fear \u2014 it\u2019s the fear \u2014 have always been undercounted, and this is the year that we can show that we can count everyone,\u201d Daley said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Daley also announced a series of efforts to reach out to various groups \u2014 seniors, veterans, ex-offenders, immigrants, the homeless and students \u2014 historically undercounted in previous censuses.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Dozens of city libraries, including the branch Daley visited today, will provide census forms and assistance filling them out. For the first time, the city is working with groups to get former prisoners involved in filling out census forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Hal Dardick at 1:20 p.m.Mayor Richard Daley continued his census push today in Humboldt Park, where officials believe residents were undercounted in the last U.S. Census.\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what status you are, you have to be counted,\u201d Daley said at Humboldt Park&#8217;s city library. \u201cIf the data is not correct, Chicago will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}