Voting Matters: Census connects federal money and your taxes
Special to The Westerly Sun, March 19, 2020 By Marguerite Long, Chairwoman of the Voter Registration Committee, League of Women Voters South County

The U.S. Constitution provides for a population count every 10 years; that is, a count of everyone regardless of citizenship residing in the U.S. It is known as the U.S. Census. (Article 1, Section 2). The Census determines the number of representatives each state can send to Congress in Washington, D.C., and also determines the allocation of hundreds of billions of dollars of federal spending...