Southern California groups scramble to get accurate census count as deadline looms

Community groups in Southern California are rushing to get the word out, especially in hard-to-count neighborhoods, that the deadline for the census has been moved up a month to Sept. 30.
Local nonprofit organizations, activists and researchers say the earlier deadline is going to exacerbate an undercount triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, which forced U.S. Census Bureau workers in March to suspend door-to-door canvassing as part of the decennial population survey. In the months since, commu