NEW ORLEANS (AP) - A national civil rights coalition wants Congress to authorize a special census for certain Gulf Coast communities that will be recovering from Hurricane Katrina when the traditional Census is taken next year.
The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights notes that people are still returning to the region and that federal recovery aid is still flowing four years after Katrina.
The group in a report Monday urges Congress to evaluate the status of Gulf Coast recovery after the 2010 Census to see which communities should be included in a special census in 2012 or 2013.
The group says a special census would allow for any big population shifts to be reflected in the allocation of funds for certain state and federal programs that use Census data.
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