level, censusl undercounts and over counts, basically cancel each other out. the way censuses look are near-perfect. we don't use it census levels -- numbers at the national level. to allocate hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding, to target new initiatives. the problem is the people who are more likely to be missed don't tend to live in be seen communities as the people who tend to be over counted. be census don't cancel each other out at the local level where it matters. instead, they compound each other. they magnify the inequalities that flow from this skewed picture. some communities get more than their fair share of public and private resources. others get far less than they should. we have to live with those results for the next 10 years. that in a nutshell is the challenge for the census bureau, reducing or eliminating that skewed picture and what we call this differential undercount. witht want to finish up the next logical question, which is, how does the census bureau do that? it, but we have sobering news. i'm worried the census bureau