Floridians will begin receiving the once-a-decade U.S. Census survey in just over a month. Yet once again, tens of thousands of people won’t respond — and for each of them, the state will lose money.
In 2010, when the last constitutionally mandated Census was taken, every person who failed to fill out the survey cost Florida $1,445 in vital federal funding in 2015 alone, according to George Washington University.
