One Year from Census Day 2020, Faith and Community Leaders Urge Gov. DeWine to Ensure that Every Ohioan is Counted
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 29, 2019
MEDIA CONTACT
Michelle Nealy, mnealy@faithinpubliclife.org, (202)735-7123
Dan Clark, dclark@faithinpubliclife.org, (614)648-3663
Ashon McKenzie, amckenzie@childrensdefense.org, (614)221-2247
Erin Ryan, ryan@innovationohio.org, (440)382-2900
One Year from Census Day 2020, Faith and Community Leaders Urge Gov. DeWine to Ensure that Every Ohioan is Counted
Columbus, Ohio — The Ohio Census Advocacy Coalition (OCAC), a newly formed network of Ohio-based advocacy organizations, faith, business, education, and community leaders, are calling on Governor Mike DeWine and legislative leaders to ensure that all Ohioans are counted in the 2020 census.
Members of the coalition will join with lawmakers at the Capitol to urge Governor Dewine and legislative leaders to allocate fully fund the census in the state budget. These funds will ensure that census outreach strategies produce an accurate count. Faith leaders will raise a moral call for a fair and complete Census that ensures all people are counted and all communities thrive.
The census will profoundly impact the future of our democracy and the health of Ohio’s communities. Ensuring a complete count is a moral necessity. An undercount would result in lost political representation for Ohio and underfunding of critical resources statewide, severely impacting communities of color, immigrants and low-income, and rural communities.
What: Press conference
When: Monday, April 1st at 11 a.m.
Where:
Harding Senate Press Briefing Room, Statehouse, 1 Capitol Square, Columbus, OH 43215
Who:
State Senator Vernon Sykes, District-28
Elizabeth Brown, Women’s Public Policy Network
Rev. Terry Williams, Orchard Hill United Church of Christ, Chillicothe
Imam Horsed Noah, Abubakar Assidiq Islamic Center, Columbus
Ashon McKenzie, Children’s Defense Fund
Michael Harlow, Council for a Strong America
Kimlee Sureemee, Asian Services in Action (ASIA)
Participating Groups Include:
Ohio Census Advocacy Coalition
Faith in Public
Children’s Defense Fund
Women’s Public Policy Network
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