To ensure a complete count for the 2030 census, we need a statewide campaign to educate New Yorkers about the census now.
In 2020, New York lost a Congressional seat because 89 people did not fill out the census.
In addition to political representation, the census also determines how billions in federal funding for programs like Medicaid, Head Start, SNAP, school lunches, affordable housing, and highway planning and lets local governments know where to build new schools, hospitals, libraries, and fire stations.
Everyone relies on the census for accurate data including businesses, scientists, researchers, and students.
We need to get New Yorkers committed early to completing the 2030 census so we can get our fair share of federal funding for our communities. Join APA VOICE in our campaign to count every New Yorker in the 2030 census.
Congress introduces and passes laws that affect everyone in the U.S. They decide whether we go to war, budgets, provide universal affordable health care, immigration policy, federal minimum wage standards, and more. Population numbers also impact how political districts are drawn and the number of electoral votes each state gets to elect the President. New York gets 28 electoral votes because we currently have 26 House seats and 2 Senate seats. The Presidential candidate who gets 270 electoral votes wins.
MinKwon Center for Community Action, the convener of APA VOICE, the largest coalition of groups seeking full participation of APA’s in the 2030 Census was invited to NYC Council Speaker Julie Menin’s press conference on National Day, April 1, 2026, four years before the 2030 Census is released.
Yoon Ji Kim, MinKwon’s Interim Executive Director and Liz OuYang, Senior Advisor to APA VOICE on the 2030 Census attended and OuYang spoke on behalf of APA VOICE on the importance of beginning NOW to educate our communities on the importance of the Census.