The Census Bureau wants to revolutionize the way it takes the pulse of America, but it needs more money first. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker says the bureau already has the technology to make the 2020 census more cost-efficient, but it needs funds to test the gear.
“You have to spend money to save money,” she says, according to a NextGov story about Pritzker’s speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month.
For an inside look at the bureau’s dreams and realities, Tom and Emily talked to Burton Reist. He is chief of the Census Bureau’s 2020 Research and Planning Office.