1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:03,720 Speaker 1: Let's begin. Congressman Maloney is one of the top Democrats 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:08,320 Speaker 1: who is leading the charge with regards to the US census, 3 00:00:08,360 --> 00:00:10,720 Speaker 1: and she has not stopped even in the midst of 4 00:00:10,760 --> 00:00:16,280 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen pandemic. Congresswoman, how has COVID nineteen impacted 5 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:22,840 Speaker 1: the US census well? As we face the coronavirus crisis, 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:26,480 Speaker 1: A full and accurate census count matters now more than ever, 7 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 1: and it's absolutely critical to secure the funding the community's 8 00:00:32,320 --> 00:00:38,919 Speaker 1: need for critical services like education, medical care, and job programs. Obviously, 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: it has impacted us in that we're quarantined and it's 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: uh everyone is focused on on COVID nineteen. The census count, 11 00:00:49,159 --> 00:00:51,239 Speaker 1: at least for my district is lower than what it 12 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:53,480 Speaker 1: was ten years ago, so we have to work hard 13 00:00:53,479 --> 00:00:58,280 Speaker 1: to adjust that. But nationally, the response rate is that 14 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: fifty per cent, which is pretty pretty good, but my 15 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:07,800 Speaker 1: district is a good tin points behind forty three percent. 16 00:01:07,880 --> 00:01:10,440 Speaker 1: In New York is it even lower at forty two 17 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: point eight percent. So it has impacted. One of the 18 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,160 Speaker 1: ways it's impacted is that we haven't been able to 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:20,280 Speaker 1: do the non response follow up, which is go door 20 00:01:20,319 --> 00:01:23,240 Speaker 1: to door to talk to people and get them to 21 00:01:23,319 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: fill out their census forms. And for that reason, the 22 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:33,240 Speaker 1: administration has asked for requesting Congress to pass a law 23 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:37,360 Speaker 1: delaying the sense it's deadline so that we'll have more 24 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:40,959 Speaker 1: time to go out and reach out to people. Delay 25 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:45,759 Speaker 1: it ninety days to fill October one. Do you think 26 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: that that has bipartisan support? I truly do, absolutely. This 27 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: is really bipartisans Everybody wants an accurate count. It's very 28 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:57,800 Speaker 1: important for business too, it's important for cities, it's important 29 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 1: for states, counties, everyone, And this number that you get 30 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: for the census is going to be there for ten years, 31 00:02:06,040 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: so it will pick take the funding formulas for critical 32 00:02:09,880 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: services like housing, medical care, education, and job programs. And 33 00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:19,600 Speaker 1: imagine where we would be if we had had an 34 00:02:19,639 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: under camp ten years ago when we did the census, 35 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: in terms of having the money, the hospitals, the personnel 36 00:02:28,040 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: to respond to this a COVID crisis that we're living 37 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: through now. And you know, you make a really really 38 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: strong point, especially from the business perspective and the business angle, 39 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: because so many small businesses on Main Street are going 40 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,680 Speaker 1: to need funds, are going to need an accurate reporting count, 41 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:52,640 Speaker 1: especially in the wake of the COVID nineteen pandemic. I 42 00:02:52,680 --> 00:02:58,120 Speaker 1: would say that businesses rely greatly on census numbers for planning. 43 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: It shows where relations are, it shows what services are there, 44 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:06,840 Speaker 1: It shows all kinds of information where they can decide 45 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:11,480 Speaker 1: where they need to put a plant or a company 46 00:03:11,600 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: or a small store or whatever. So if your census 47 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,799 Speaker 1: numbers aren't right, your data is not right, so then 48 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,120 Speaker 1: your policies and planning aren't right. So it's critical in 49 00:03:21,560 --> 00:03:25,880 Speaker 1: that respect. It's also critical to the support and funding 50 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:29,760 Speaker 1: of the community in which a business resides. So if 51 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,440 Speaker 1: you are undercounted, you don't have the money for the 52 00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:36,040 Speaker 1: schools to educate the people to work, and businesses you 53 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:39,680 Speaker 1: don't have the mass transit dollars to bring them into 54 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 1: the sites where they work or they or the roads 55 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 1: and bridges repairs that are needed. So it's really very critical. 56 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 1: If many people think it's boring, but it's actually critical 57 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:53,160 Speaker 1: to our our way of life in many ways. It's 58 00:03:53,200 --> 00:03:57,960 Speaker 1: one of the few responsibilities of government that is actually 59 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,920 Speaker 1: listed in the Constitution as a much to requirement of 60 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:07,000 Speaker 1: government for planning to go forward. So businesses should make 61 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 1: a big effort to make sure that all of their 62 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:13,360 Speaker 1: people who work with them fill out their forms that 63 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,360 Speaker 1: they tell their families, their neighbors, their community to fill 64 00:04:16,360 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: it out. It's uh, it's good for everyone. And your 65 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: staff chairwoman prepared to report for you. And one of 66 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: the items in the report that I found just I 67 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 1: highlighted it especially as it as it relates to the 68 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:34,600 Speaker 1: underserved in our country. For every low income worker who 69 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:38,719 Speaker 1: gets counted, the programs will receive four hundred and seventy 70 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:41,800 Speaker 1: dollars in the district. So if there is just a 71 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: one percent under count in two thousand and twenty, a 72 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: district could lose more than three hundred and twenty thousand 73 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:50,680 Speaker 1: dollars in federal funding. And you and I both know, 74 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: and this is regardless of which party are in that 75 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,960 Speaker 1: that money counts. That money means something, that's food on 76 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:59,320 Speaker 1: the table and that's you know, basic services for for 77 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,000 Speaker 1: the unders in our country. That's true. And for schools, 78 00:05:03,080 --> 00:05:05,880 Speaker 1: we did it and it showed that for a one 79 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: percent under count you can lose in your school it's 80 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: for your school districts over four hundred and thirty thousand dollars. 81 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:15,479 Speaker 1: That's a lot of ours. So it's a lot of 82 00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: money in schools and job training and our our formulas 83 00:05:20,360 --> 00:05:24,479 Speaker 1: really for medicare, Medicaid, all of these items that go 84 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:29,159 Speaker 1: into communities that helped support the community and keep the 85 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: community strong, are funding formulas for hospitals. In these COVID 86 00:05:34,360 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: relief packages, we've focused on great deal on hospitals because 87 00:05:38,040 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: they are overburdened in many ways with the number of 88 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: people that are challenged and personnelitis challenge and we basically 89 00:05:49,440 --> 00:05:53,279 Speaker 1: have a disease a virus for which we have no cure, 90 00:05:54,360 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: so we are really badly UH an incredible task, but 91 00:06:00,400 --> 00:06:03,479 Speaker 1: we cannot forget that during this time while we're at home. 92 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 1: To fill out our our senses, you can go to 93 00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:12,680 Speaker 1: dot dov are my dot gov, fill it out online, 94 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:16,440 Speaker 1: you can call the Sense of euro you can get 95 00:06:16,560 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 1: the form in the mail as it's been mailed out. 96 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: But it's UH. It's really the largest peace time mobilization 97 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: that we all do together. It's a very unifying thing. 98 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:30,919 Speaker 1: All of us are part of appreciating what our medical 99 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:34,200 Speaker 1: teams are doing in the hospitals, but we also need 100 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:36,920 Speaker 1: to support them by getting them the money they deserve, 101 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,640 Speaker 1: by getting an accurate count of the number of people 102 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:43,600 Speaker 1: they have to serve. I wanted to to just get 103 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:46,240 Speaker 1: your take on one last topic, moving away from the senses. 104 00:06:46,279 --> 00:06:48,279 Speaker 1: But I know that you recently introduced a piece of 105 00:06:48,360 --> 00:06:52,720 Speaker 1: legislation that would forgive healthcare workers student loans uh and 106 00:06:52,720 --> 00:06:56,120 Speaker 1: and it's comparable to the g I bill uh and 107 00:06:56,120 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: And I just wanted to get uh for you to 108 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: explain that to us, because that's called the the student 109 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:08,800 Speaker 1: debt forgiveness for frontline health I support UM student debt forgiveness. 110 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: It's really hurting them across the board. But in this case, 111 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:15,240 Speaker 1: we have we have a crisis, we have an emergency, 112 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:18,400 Speaker 1: and in talking to my hospitals, at first we didn't 113 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:23,440 Speaker 1: have enough medical equipment, and then we didn't have enough ventilators. 114 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:27,000 Speaker 1: But what is really hurting them now is they don't 115 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,160 Speaker 1: have enough people. We were at a crisis level. The 116 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,720 Speaker 1: federal government sent in over one thousand, five hundred medical 117 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:38,720 Speaker 1: workers from the Military Medical Establishment to just help out 118 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: in New York because so many of our first responders 119 00:07:43,440 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 1: in our hospitals are workers that were there interacting with 120 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: with patients were sick and many died, and we just 121 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:55,040 Speaker 1: didn't have the personnel. So we have a number of 122 00:07:55,080 --> 00:08:00,160 Speaker 1: young people graduating from medical school from nursing school, and 123 00:08:00,480 --> 00:08:04,400 Speaker 1: as a incentive and also as a thank you for 124 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: going to the front lines and serving COVID patients that 125 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:15,640 Speaker 1: their medical school debt should be uh forgiven. And also 126 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,720 Speaker 1: those that are working now with medical debt. Sometimes I 127 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,960 Speaker 1: talked to young medical students and they tell me they'll 128 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,640 Speaker 1: be fifty or sixty before they pay off all their debt. 129 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:29,360 Speaker 1: That's really unfair to burden them with that. In addition, 130 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,080 Speaker 1: they are the ones that are saving the lives of 131 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:36,400 Speaker 1: our of our our fellow community members, are our family 132 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:41,679 Speaker 1: members and other people that are infected. Consoman Maloney, thank 133 00:08:41,720 --> 00:08:43,840 Speaker 1: you so much for for learning your voice and your 134 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:48,400 Speaker 1: time on these important issues. I very much appreciate it. Well, 135 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:50,760 Speaker 1: thank you Kevin for calling and and please have you 136 00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,200 Speaker 1: feel about your SENSUS form? I you know what I 137 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: have to be honest. I just picked up the mail 138 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:57,560 Speaker 1: and I was going through it, and I said, I 139 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:01,400 Speaker 1: cannot interview congress Woman Maloney and and and not do this. 140 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,240 Speaker 1: So it is on my to do list for today. 141 00:09:04,840 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: Very good and tell all your listening public to fill 142 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:12,560 Speaker 1: it out. Do something for yourself, for your community and 143 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 1: your country. Fill out your senses for him and by 144 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: the way, it's totally totally private and confidential. I appreciate that. 145 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:20,800 Speaker 1: All right, thank you so much.