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21 Jan, 11 tweets, 6 min read
1/ Oh, did you think #Census2020 was over?

It.👏 Is.👏🏽 Not.👏🏾 Over.👏🏿

In fact, things are JUST getting interesting. @DaveeJonesLock and @ByardDuncan have heard from ~150 census employees about problems on the ground.

And they want to hear more: reveal.forms.fm/work-for-the-c…
2/ Our reporters have been letting workers’ experiences guide coverage of #Census2020 for months.

First, it was faulty technology in the field. revealnews.org/article/weve-a…
3/ Then, it was a wave of complaints about duplicative work, arbitrary terminations and haphazard management practices. revealnews.org/article/census…
4/ Most recently, Census Bureau workers from across the country told us that efforts to speed up and streamline the count generated major confusion – and, in some areas, may have reduced data quality. revealnews.org/article/census…
5/ Meanwhile, even though field operations for the 2020 count ended in October, there’s been a trickle of startling news coming out of the bureau.

In November, it announced the discovery of “anomalies” in its data. apnews.com/article/census…
6/ In January, @NPR’s @hansilowang first reported that the bureau needed more time – MUCH more time – than it initially claimed it would to release its first set of 2020 results.
7/ One of the main reasons the bureau sped up on-the-ground operations last year was to deliver apportionment totals to former Pres. Trump by Dec. 31. These shifting deadlines created major chaos for workers across the U.S.
8/ That’s not all. This week, the Census Bureau’s director, Steven Dillingham, abruptly stepped down after allegedly rushing out a report on noncitizens.

That’s eleven months before his term was set to end. npr.org/2021/01/18/957…
9/ And one of Pres. @JoeBiden’s first executive orders?

It aims to ensure a “Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
10/ We’re also outsourcing the tips we get! If you’re a local reporter and want to dig into these problems in your area, sign up for our Reveal Reporting Networks and select the “Seeing 2020 Reporting Network”: revealnews.us1.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=cb…
11/ So again: There are a lot of stories yet to be told about #Census2020. And our reporters @daveejoneslock and @ByardDuncan are standing by to tell them.

If you worked for the bureau and want to share your story, reach them here: screendoor.dobt.co/reveal/work-fo…

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More from @reveal

23 Jan
NEW EPISODE📻

1/ Despite a peaceful transfer of power during Joe Biden's swearing in as the 46th president of the U.S., there's still a long shadow cast by the White supremacist and anti-immigrant forces that brought President Trump to power. revealnews.org/episodes/a-tra…
2/ In the episode, @Appalachia100 reporter @GWOTTrapLordz describes what it was like on the scene in Washington during the inauguration.
3/ Then, we hear from two D.C. residents who tell us what the attack on the Capitol meant for those who call the surrounding area home.

@anjucomet spoke to one of them: a 24-year-old Army veteran who says that her D.C. is not the D.C. much of the country sees from a distance.
Read 6 tweets
21 Jan
1/ On Jan. 20, 2020, the United States' first known case of the coronavirus was reported in a county north of Seattle.

Since then, the virus has crept into every county in the U.S., killing nearly 400,000 people, and infecting 1 in every 14 Americans. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/…
2/ Our coverage around the COVID-19 pandemic aimed to highlight how the virus affected the most vulnerable people in this country, from immigrants stuck in unsanitary ICE facilities, to healthcare workers and residents in nursing homes with poor infection controls.
3/ One of the first stories we published at the height of the pandemic centered immigrants.

As many corners of American life came to a halt to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the U.S. immigration system in many ways continued with business as usual. revealnews.org/article/how-fe…
Read 16 tweets
15 Jan
NEW INVESTIGATION:

1/ @McDonalds USA has claimed it’s an industry leader when it comes to COVID-19 precautions.

In our latest investigation, we reported on complaints filed by workers who portrayed some of the chain's outlets as COVID-19 incubators. revealnews.org/article/mcdona…
2/ In the early weeks of the pandemic, workers at a McDonald's in Oakland claimed social distancing wasn’t enforced.

As they boxed Big Macs, scooped french fries and bagged orders, they often stood shoulder to shoulder.
3/ The Oakland McDonald's was so busy that workers said they had no time to wash their hands, let alone disinfect the countertops.

And when there weren't enough masks, managers offered up a box of dog diapers someone had left at the store.
Read 12 tweets
14 Jan
1/ First, it was problems with government-issued tech.

Then it was complaints about repetitive work, arbitrary terminations and disorganized management.

Now, census workers across the U.S. are raising new concerns about how cases were closed.
revealnews.org/article/census…
2/ Nearly 150 people have responded to our survey seeking census workers’ experiences on the ground: screendoor.dobt.co/reveal/work-fo… .

One concern voiced by supervisors: The bureau gave up too early on getting the best data by door-knocking and instead relied on administrative records.
3/ According to the Bureau's own research, quality and completeness of administrative records is not expansive enough to replace a traditional census. [link or screengrab]

census.gov/content/dam/Ce…
Read 14 tweets
14 Jan
1/ In the 3 years since the murders of Syrian-American journalist Halla Barakat and her mother, questions about the case lingered.

Police said they were killed in a domestic dispute & closed the case. Those who knew them wondered if the murders had something to do w/ their work. Photo courtesy of ABC News
2/ In collaboration with @ABC and freelance reporter @faribanawa, we dug into the investigative files related to the killings and learned that the U.S. government chose not to get involved in the investigation. revealnews.org/article/an-ame…
3/ Around the time we published our story last year, @AgnesCallamard from the @UN sent a letter to Turkish authorities seeking clarity on the depth of the investigation into the brutal killings and insisting that a possible “politically-motivated killing be considered.”
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21 Sep 20
1/ For this week’s show, we teamed up with @MarshallProj and talked to people hit hard by COVID-19 in two of the most vulnerable places: nursing homes and prisons. revealnews.org/episodes/covid…
2/ In late February Carrie, a woman from Maryland, went to visit her mom at a Florida nursing home. She’d just seen the first news reports about outbreaks, and feared her mother was in danger.
3/ Before Carrie left her mom at the nursing home to go back to Maryland, she had a bad feeling. “I stood there in the hallway for several minutes just looking at her. And I wanted to memorize the scene because I knew I would not be seeing her again..."
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