The US Census Bureau confronted a logistical nightmare before the pandemic. And now that it’s ending its count one month early, the likelihood of undercounts of groups including Black, Latino, Asian and Indigenous populations has grown exponentially. A former director of the US Census Bureau, Kenneth Prewitt, talks with The World’s Marco Werman.
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