MyTwoCensus is a census tracking group. It was created in February 2009 for the

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. It tracks topics such as the constitutionality of including

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s in the census.

History

The group was created by

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, a journalist and filmmaker as a project to identify reasons why the

would be a controversial process. As part of this process, Morse applied and won a grant through The Robert Novak Journalism Fellowship program from the

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. The award allowed Morse to continue his pet project. Morse first developed the idea as he was on Craigslist, looking for an additional job in San Francisco soon after college graduation, and noticed that the US Census Bureau was looking to hire employees in the Bay Area at the rate of $22-$26 per hour. After further research, Morse and University of Pennsylvania friend Evan Goldin created the group's website and blog, MyTwoCensus.com, in order to provide unofficial oversight for the

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. In March 2010, the site added a community message board operated through the

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site, Ning. Journalists from The Washington Post and CNN have cited MyTwoCensus in their reporting.

Activities

The MyTwoCensus website reports on the handling of the census. MyTwoCensus is headed by two journalists: Morse and Goldin. Morse has said that he utilizes

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, and attends census worker recruitment sessions in his reporting. In 2009, MyTwoCensus discovered that the

had supposedly paid the delivery company

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several million dollars over time to mail documents that were not time-sensitive. The group publicized the findings after a census worker wrote to the website questioning the bureau's use of "priority overnight delivery." The group has been critical of Census Bureau management, including Robert M. Groves the current Director of the United States Census Bureau, as well as both Republicans and

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s for their handling of 2010 Census operations. MyTwoCensus has been mentioned in

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publications, such as that of conservative blogger Michelle Malkin. Though most MyTwoCensus reports are authored by Morse himself, other journalists, including Emily Babay and Emily Schultheis of '' The Daily Pennsylvanian'' and Laura Masnerus (formerly of '' The New York Times'') have written for the site as well.

References

External links

MyTwoCensus website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mytwocensus Political organizations based in the United States