A new decision for how temporarily deployed military personnel are counted in the 2020 U.S. Census could make a difference in how many congressional seats are allocated in states which have a larger number of active military service members.
The results of the 2020 census will determine how hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funding are allocated to local communities for schools, health care, and emergency services for the next 10 years and how the 435 congressional seats are divided.
