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The use of estimates of the undocumented immigrant population in federal funding formulas and the impact of different estimates on these formulas.
from the decennial census would shrink the population counts states and localities use to guide the allocation of hundreds of federal programs, likely reducing funding for jurisdictions with large non...
Estimates of the undocumented (unauthorized) immigrant population diverge because research groups use different data sources and methods—residual calculations from surveys like the /, administrative r...
Differing population figures coming from Homeland Security messaging and the U.S. Census — and the political use of those figures — reverberate through federal funding formulas, political representati...
, , and are the three largest levers through which equalizes needs, buys services, and underwrites local economies — and they do so in ways that cut across the red/blue political map rather than neatl...