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SUMMARY: On Tuesday, President Trump signed a memo aiming to bar undocumented immigrants from being included in the census count that determines how many members of Congress are allocated to each state. The census is conducted once in a decade, but it shapes funding, policy and power for years. Lisa Desjardins reports and talks to Hansi Lo Wang of NPR about what this and the pandemic mean for the census.
Editor's note: The guest in this segment misstated that an enslaved person in the U.S. was counted as three-fourths of a person under the Constitution. Enslaved Black Americans were counted as three-fifths of a person.
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