While the Federation and the Asian American Task Force on Census 2000 urge the community to cooperate fully with enumerators in their neighborhoods, we are also monitoring the Bureau's operations in this second phase. There is significant concern that there have not been enough bilingual enumerators hired for communities with large Asian immigrant populations. The Federation and AALDEF have secured assurances from Tony Farthing, regional director for the NY Metro area that if we can specifically identify problems with the enumeration process in Asian neighborhoods, he will work to resolve them. Please call Parag Khandhar at ext. 18 with any information about specific problems or concerns with the enumeration process that you or members of your agency have heard. All information is useful, from reports and contact information of individuals with Asian language ability who scored well on the exams and were never called to work, to community members who have had run-ins with insensitive enumerators. Thank you and stay tuned...

The Census 2000 Student Poster Contest, which was held in March, was made possible by grants from Bell Atlantic and Chase Manhattan Bank .