By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | An accurate population count in 2020 is needed to keep South Carolina’s share of billions of dollars in federal funding from decreasing, according to advocates.
South Carolina, where a third of its annual revenues comes from the federal government and more than 15 percent of its residents live in poverty, could be among those states seeing less federal money than needed to take care of its population due to an added question on the 2020 census of a responder’s and their household’s citizenship status, according to plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit. Advocates in the state say the question will cause immigrant households to not participate.
“It’s going to impact poor states like South Carolina tremendously,” S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center Director Sue Berkowitz told Statehouse Report.
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