Uber, Nielsen And Others Urge Supreme Court To Nix Citizenship Question
- by Wendy Davis @wendyndavis, April 1, 2019
Ride-sharing company Uber, online glasses seller Warby Parker and the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce are among a host of companies and business organizations asking the Supreme Court to leave in place a decision that prohibits the Department of Commerce from including a question about citizenship in the upcoming census. …
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There are several strata of legal residence beside citizenship. Lawful Permanent Resident (green card), F1/M1/J1 visas, temporary employment-based visas, etc. Why are the objectors to the citizenship question not "terrified" to lose that critical marketing information?
Those holding these have nothing to fear and no shame. They are here legally.
This should be a multiple-choice question.
Many people won't respond to the census, period. Others won't because they have family members who are not cititzens or friends who are not citizens. Others will answer they are not citizens when they are, in protest, like me. Not that so much that advertisng depends upon accuracy,but funds, governments - federal, state, local are dependent upon them. Productivity Depends upon accuracy. We depend upon them when disasters occur, we need accuracy for the military and defense. It will increase fudging and lying from the people collecting and trying to find people and more inaccuracy. How many brown shirts will be out there collecting people and putting them in cages and camps ? How many wrongful arrests and jailing suits are there going to be ? How much is that going to cost to settle them and cost to productivity ? Then the census will have to be redone when these fascists are out of office and how much will that cost ? and the redoing of all the aforementioned and more - what will that cost ?
Ships of fools.
ANA continues to oppose the addition of a question on American citizenship to the 2020 census. We are concerned that the addition of this question -- "Is this person a citizen of the United States? -- would depress response among both non-citizens and their families (even if family members are indeed citizens). That runs the risk of non-respondent bias by significantly undercounting immigrant, minority, and low income populations. If immigrants and others avoid the national headcount, the census results will be flawed. This raises significant issues in the world of marketing, as flawed results would distort the representation of U.S. population estimates and the research benchmarked to it. Since the census is the foundation for population estimates that support the marketing industry, inaccurate census data would lead to misallocated marketing resouces. It could have a particularly negative impact on media that serve multicultural communities, the companies which research them, and the agencies which advertise to them. The value marketers see in those consumer segmens would be understated and investments reduced. ANA wholeheartedly supports the many companies and organizations who are asking the Supreme Court to leave in place the decision that prohibits the Department of Commerce from including a question about citizenship in the upcoming census.