Census to stop counting Americans a month early amid growing fears of an undercount - NBC News

The Census Bureau is halting its field operations to count the population a month ahead of schedule, the agency's director announced in a statement Monday night, raising fears of a national undercount.

Steven Dillingham said in a statement posted on the bureau's website that the agency is ending all of its counting efforts on Sept.

31 deadline for turning in apportionment data to the president and data to the states by four month to April 30, 2021, instead of March 31, 2021.

Dillingham said in order to meet its statutory deadlines to turn over data the bureau's plans are to "accelerate the completion of data collection and apportionment counts.".