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In this, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020 photo, Juana Brown, director of charter schools for the Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) speaks during an interview with The Associated Press at the association's Rollason Child Development Center in Immokalee, Fla. The organization partnered up with the U.S. Census Bureau to talk to migrant families about the decennial count. 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)

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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.