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Census director's resignation could affect control of Congress after 2020

  • Written by Jay L. Zagorsky, Economist and Research Scientist, The Ohio State University
imageWill the next director ensure everyone is counted? Crowd of people via www.shutterstock.com

John H. Thompson, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, just resigned amid a funding fight over the 2020 Census.

Since it comes at the same time that the president fired the director of the FBI, why should anyone care about the resignation of just another...

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