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The Civic Scene: Fill out the Census: We need the money

By Bob Harris

As of this writing, the Census Bureau has just released figures which shows that only 52 percent of the households in Queens had returned the forms. The Census Bureau had hoped for a 63 percent return which would have been better then the 58 percent return in 1990.

I see very few reasonable explanations as to why so few people returned their forms. One top Queens official said that illegal conversions and a scared immigrant population were the key reasons for the low rate of return.

Yes, there are many people here from many different lands. Many came here because they feared the totalitarian and brutal governments in the countries they came from. This was a well-founded fear