The actual purpose for the CENSUS is to obtain an accurate count of the habitants in each city, county, town, and state. These numbers will allow the National Government to allocate money to each State, so they use for the needs of the population.
Some of the needs will be construction of highways, schools, improvements in the medical care, school care, etc. Of course the money will be proportional to the population count. The idea is pretty good if we can considerer that the money will be equally distribute among the state’s population so the needs will be fulfill.
I think the census is in idea the greatest idea especially if our state government will provided the right services to the community. This year we have a census and according to the count the Travis county responses are behind the national average. One of the many reason is believe that people was waiting until April 1, 2010 to submit their envelopes instead of mail them right away. Another reason is that Austin is in majority populated by students who do not live all year but only during Spring and Fall to attend the different Universities located at Austin.
If the Texas cannot provide an accurate number of habitants the State will not get the money need it to fulfill the services in Texas but government will probably will have to rearrange the way money is spend , so it can be use successfully. Hopefully Texas will get enough money to fix the streets and finish up with the highways, to improve school education and created a better plan of how to deal with children who speak different languages; or to do something about the homeless people begging for money in the different intersection in Austin, etc.
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The Lone Star State blog makes a good point in their post, “Census is the answer for the prays of How to get the government to allocate money to the states.” They claim that the census is an important factor, the most important factor, to come up with a reasonable way to allocate, or give, money to each state. The census allows the government to count the population and make a assessment on how much money each state should get according how many people it is to cover.
ReplyDeleteAs The Lone Star State blog says, this money would go towards building and up keeping highways and schools and improve medical care. We have a census every 10 years so that as population changes the government can change in order to accommodate these changes.
The Lone Star State blog is right in saying that ideally the census is great, but in actuality it falls short due to the fact that people don’t turn in their census papers and therefore many people go uncounted. These uncounted people not only skew our numbers but they skew them enough to effect the money the state gets. As they said, Travis County is behind the nations average, and it is right to assume a lot of this has to do with the fact that there are a large number of college students. College students, especially freshmen and sophomores, go back home during breaks and aren’t there all year long. They are also more preoccupied with school and don’t care enough to turn their papers in. There are also a lot of homeless people that are unaccounted for, and illegal immigrants who fear being exported.
Nationwide we miss a large number of people; we just need to try our best to find other ways to count as many people as we can. Everyone needs to be aware of this issue and to understand that the government just wants to count us for our own benefit.