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2020 Census To Count Deployed Troops At Home Bases, Prisoners At Facilities

The Census Bureau says it will change how it counts service members deployed overseas and continue counting prisoners as residents of their correctional facilities for the upcoming national headcount.

The U.S. Census Bureau has announced it will change the way it counts troops deployed overseas, while keeping its policy on counting prisoners for the upcoming national headcount in 2020. How these two populations are factored into the 2020 census could affect the balance of power in government at both the federal and local levels.

For the last census in 2010, all by the Census Bureau.

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