WHYY.com: Faith leaders: Be counted
By Tom MacDonald
http://whyy.org/cms/news/regional-news/2010/03/15/faith-leaders-be-counted/33221
A major push is underway to get Philadelphians to fill out their census forms. WHYY’s Tom MacDonald reports the effort began Sunday with messages from the pulpit.
Faith leaders started spreading the word on Sunday through their sermons that people need to fill out their census forms, and city officials are going to do all they can to make sure people follow through and mail the forms in. The reason as Mayor Michael Nutter explains is federal funding is determined by census data.
Nutter:
Patricia Enright is Executive Director of Philly Counts. She says a grassroots effort will go right into neighborhood hubs of activity.
Enright:
Enright says neighborhoods were English isn’t the first language is where they run into problems because people don’t understand census data is completely confidential.
The census count begins April 1, 2010.
We’ll be visiting barbershops and beauty salons throughout the city places where people gather where they talk to friends on a regular basis.We’re trying to keep everyone as focused on this as this as possible because this is what it’s all about it’s about money, it’s about resources it’s about support for this community here in Philadelphia.
