“Right now, we are about 4% behind the (census) response rate where we were in 2010. But for Black and Latino and Native American communities, they’re behind by 10%.”
Stacey Abrams
Fair Count founder. MSNBC interview. Claim dated 23 Jul 2020.
PolitiFact rated thisHalf True
What PolitiFact found
There is one metric that supports Abrams’ point, but the Census Bureau and other experts said it’s difficult or impractical to compare response rates in 2010 and 2020 .
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Stacey Abrams (Fair Count founder) made this claim around 23 July 2020. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 31 July 2020, 8 days later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Stacey Abrams has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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