{"id":53862,"date":"2017-05-11T02:01:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53862"},"modified":"2017-05-11T02:01:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T02:01:50","slug":"departure-of-u-s-census-director-threatens-2020-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53862","title":{"rendered":"Departure of U.S. Census director threatens 2020 count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/departure-us-census-director-threatens-2020-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Departure of U.S. Census director threatens 2020 count<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Science<\/a><br \/>\n2017-05-09<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/author\/jeffrey-mervis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Jeffrey Mervis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/departure-us-census-director-threatens-2020-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline__699w__no_aspect\/public\/John%20Thompson.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_H._Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Thompson<\/a> will leave the Census Bureau on 30 June. <em>U.S. Census Bureau<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_H._Thompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Thompson<\/a> is stepping down next month as director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>. His announcement today comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/challenges-mount-successful-2020-us-census\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">less than 1 week after a congressional spending panel grilled him about mounting problems facing the agency<\/a> in preparing for the 2020 decennial census. And Thompson\u2019s pending retirement is weighing heavily on the U.S. statistical community.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson is leaving halfway through a 1-year extension of a term that expired last December. His departure will create what a 2011 law was expressly designed to avoid\u2014a leadership vacuum during a crucial time in the 10-year life cycle of the census, the nation\u2019s largest civilian undertaking. The immediate concern is who the Trump administration will appoint, and how soon it will act&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/new.sipa.columbia.edu\/faculty\/kenneth-prewitt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Prewitt<\/a>, who led the agency from 1998 to 2001, worries that a long delay in naming a well-qualified replacement for Thompson could be the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/01\/scientists-fear-pending-attack-federal-statistics-collection\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">first step of a long, steep decline in the quality of the federal statistic system<\/a>, which spans 13 agencies. \u201cThat system is fragile, and it wouldn\u2019t take much to damage it severely,\u201d says Prewitt, a professor of social affairs at Columbia University. \u201cMy real fear is that they don\u2019t care enough to do a good job with the 2020 census. And then after doing a bad job, they decide to let the private sector take over.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/05\/departure-us-census-director-threatens-2020-count\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Thompson is stepping down next month as director of the U.S. Census Bureau. His announcement today comes less than 1 week after a congressional spending panel grilled him about mounting problems facing the agency in preparing for the 2020 decennial census.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,20],"tags":[26970,18073,21979,20360,2544,26971,17567,2471,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-53862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-usa","tag-jeffrey-mervis","tag-john-h-thompson","tag-john-thompson","tag-ken-prewitt","tag-kenneth-prewitt","tag-phil-sparks","tag-science","tag-science-magazine","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53864,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53862\/revisions\/53864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}