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In this, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 photo, Maria Juarez, a Guatemalan mother of three from San Marcos who works picking tomatoes, picks up one of her children and the child of another worker at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association's Rollason Child Development Center in Immokalee, Fla. Small, poor and largely Latino communities around the U.S. historically have been undercounted, an analysis by The Associated Press shows, posing challenges for Census workers in a tally that's supposed to ensure federal dollars get to communities needing them most. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

In this, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 photo, Maria Juarez, a Guatemalan mother of three from San Marcos who works picking tomatoes, picks up one of her children and the child of another worker at the Redlands Christian Migrant Association's Rollason Child Development Center in Immokalee, Fla. Small, poor and largely Latino communities around the U.S. historically have been undercounted, an analysis by The Associated Press shows, posing challenges for Census workers in a tally …

March 16, 2020

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US census faces challenges counting small, poor Latino towns
March 16, 2020 3:41 p.m.

US census faces challenges counting small, poor Latino towns

GUADALUPE, Ariz. (AP) — The two white-washed, mission-style churches and old, wooden homes in this town of mostly Latinos and Native Americans seem misplaced near luxury apartments in Phoenix and a suburb surrounding it.