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City Club Missoula: 2020 Census leaders share what’s at stake for Montanans

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The 2020 Census is approaching and Montana has a lot riding on it, including billions of dollars in federal funding and the number of Montana representatives in the U.S. House.

“What’s at stake is basically two things: power and money,” Karen Murphy, a U.S. Census partnership specialist focused on western Montana, said at the monthly City Club Missoula meeting on Monday.

The census counts everyone in the United States and is used as the basis for the allocation of more than $800 billion in federal funds annually to support programs that affect health care, housing, education, transportation, employment and public policy.

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