LULAC Launches Initiative for Latino Participation in Census

Link to article here: lulac.org/news/pr/Voto_Latino_to_launch_census_initiative/

The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and Voto Latino have partnered to launch the “Be Counted, Represent!” campaign, an effort to get Latinos to be fairly represented in everything from the allocation of federal budgets for education, health care and transportation to the drawing of Congressional districts. Latinos have historically been severely underrepresented in the census, especially Latino youth.
A challenge for Latinos in the 2010 count comes from a small but vocal group of community leaders urging Latinos to boycott the census to protest congressional inaction on immigration reform. Supporters say the counting of undocumented immigrants only benefits state and local governments who use their population figures to apply for federal funds, and then refuse to allocate funds to Latino populations.
Concerns about an accurate count of the Latino community partly stem from the outcome of the 2000 census, when the Census Bureau estimated that it over-counted the total population by 1.3 million people while under-counting Hispanics by 250,000.