Lt. Governor Susan Bysiewicz & I visit Waterbury YMCA

Waterbury Seal
June 24, 2020
Today at 2:30, I will join the Lieutenant Governor, Rep. Cummings,  Exec. Director of Early Childhood Alliance Merrill Gay, Child Development Director of Waterbury YMCA Kristen Jones to underscore importance of counting every child during the 2020 census.

Though the state and Waterbury are performing well in terms of overall responsiveness, the same cannot be said for the state's hard-to-count areas, which so far are responding even less than they did in 2010.

Latino children are among the most under-counted populations in the U.S. More than 56.5 million Latinos live in the U.S., and roughly one in three live in hard-to-count census tracts. This hits our community hard because according to the 2010 Census, Hispanic or Latino residents accounted for 31.2% of the Waterbury population; 20.1% Black or African American.

For every child under-counted, the state will lose funding for health insurance, hospital programs, childcare and early childhood development. Count EVERYONE and fill out the census online.