Why Congress Stopped Growing W/ Dan Bouk
May 31, 2021
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as posted by the channelThere are 435 members of the US House of Representatives, but has that always been the case? Surprisingly, until 100 years ago, Congress grew as the nation's population did and this was all tracked through the census. So what changed? This interview previously aired on Peacock on April 29, 2021. Sam Seder discusses the effects of the census on representation with Professor Dan Bouk.
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"Every 10 years, the census counts every American wherever they live on one particular day: “Census Day.” Since 1930, that day has been April 1. This year, the millions charged with making door-to-door counts for the 2020 decennial census must wait in the wings. Because of COVID-19, field operations have been suspended until April 15. Some public officials, including 14 congressional representatives in New York and Chicago’s mayor, have called for extending the counting period as far as the end of the year, or beyond.
But the census is still taking place online and by phone. More than a third of all households have already responded on their own. And that is crucial because, as we ponder the delays that COVID-19 may cause, remember that the most important Census Day isn’t April 1 — it’s Dec. 31, 2020.
That’s the deadline for handing over the totals of population for each state, figures that will determine how federal power is allocated among the states. The same legislation that set April 1 as Census Day in 1929 also created a system that we still use today, one that automatically decides what each state’s proper number of representatives for the next decade will be."
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