Census Forms in Spanish? - U.S. English Audiocast
September 29, 2009
As reported in many newspapers and television networks this week, the U.S. Census will be spending $26 million to send Spanish-language Census forms to communities around the nation. The 14 million forms, which will be targeted to specific neighborhoods, raise questions about how the government deals with non-English speaking populations and what is being done to promote English acquisition in the United States.
In this audio clip, Tim Schultz, Director of Government Relations for U.S. English, discusses the implications of Spanish-language Census forms and what their use may mean to Spanish-speakers and other foreign language speakers in the United States.
Please click below to begin the audio clip. The segment lasts approximately 3 minutes.
Census Forms in Spanish
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