terriann lowenthal is an expert on all things consensus. spent 14 years as a congressional aide, including eight years from 1987 through 1994 as staff director of the house census and population subcommittee. since leaving the hill, terriann has remained engaged in census issues. she's served on the 2008 obama presidential transition team, advising on census and federal statistical activities. she advises a wide range of census stakeholders on policy and operational issues including philanthropy, civil rights advocates, state and local government, and business and industry data users. importantly, she is an alumna of georgetown university law center so let me say welcome back to terriann. professor indivar dutta-gupta, he also serves as an adjunct professor of law. indi is co-author of "counting everyone in the digital age: the implications of technology use in the 2020 die senall census" which can be found on the tables outside and online. prior to joining georgetown law, indi held positions as a congressional aide and with multiple policy

i think you set up terriann lowenthal quite well. >> yes, thank you, john, and john. thanks for having me, and i'd like to see what my tuition dollars paid for because not of this was your when i graduated from georgetown law many moons ago. but i think a more to talk about just two things. getting into a little more depth based on what john said. john talked about why and i could census is important. the question is does the census bureau actually get it right? it tries. the senses has generally gotten more accurate over time as i think john mention, but it is not an equal opportunity enumeration. the census does not count all population groups equally well. people of color are missed at disproportionately high rates. low income households in both urban and rural areas are missed at higher rates. while non-hispanic whites and higher income households were over counted in the 2010 census. also at risk of being missed, immigrants, female single-parent households, female headed single parent households, young mobile adults. icf you in here, are all at risk of not being