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U Of I Professor: Debate Around Citizenship Question Could Decrease Census Participation
Julie Dowling is one of several researchers who opposes adding the citizenship question. Dowling is a professor at the University of Illinois, and vice chair of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations.