Census Director Robert Groves on 2010 count

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Why do we need to complete the census? What does the federal government do with all the information that comes with it? And why does the Census include its particular categories around race and ethnicity? Robert Groves, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau, answers some of our questions as we kick off our week of census coverage.

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