Obama’s little ACORNs – Using your kids to collect census data
Obama is using ACORN to do census collection data for 2010, and now your kids too! Obama is also specifically targeting bilingual children for the obviously important Hispanic vote. More from USA today:
The White House is also joining with Sesame Street to help preschoolers evangelize about the Census to their parents.he government has launched Census in Schools, an all-out campaign targeting superintendents, principals, teachers, students and, indirectly, parents, as schools open across the nation this month and next. The message: The Census is coming and here’s why everyone should care. More from USA today:
The goal is to send posters, teaching guides, maps and lesson plans to every school in the nation, Puerto Rico and U.S. island territories to encourage everyone to participate in the national count. The materials will land in more than 118,000 schools and reach 56 million students.
“It’s great to reach the children because children are such strong voices in their homes,” says Renee Jefferson-Copeland, chief of the Census schools program. “In households that are linguistically isolated, they can express the information to their parents.”
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