The
KA
Vote Task Force
has launched “Korean American Day of Service,” a nationwide campaign to get out
the count before the Census deadline (now moved to October 5, 2020). It is
urging every Korean to volunteer 10 minutes to contact 10 people to fill out the
Census, to impact the next 10 years of our community’’s future.
The
Task Force is pushing out a graphic on KakaoTalk and social media asking each
person to share the message to 10 people and ask whether they have completed the
Census. It will be particularly important to help seniors who can’t access
online by themselves or Koreans who can’t speak English fluently.
The
Census only takes 10 minutes to complete online, and can be accessed in Korean
at www.2020census.gov/ko.
The Census Bureau will never ask for your full Social Security number, bank
account or credit card numbers, money or donations, or anything on behalf of a
political party. The 2020 Census will not ask citizenship status.
The
2020 Census will determine congressional representation, inform hundreds of
billions in federal funding every year, and provide data that will impact
communities for the next decade. So it is crucial that every Korean living in
America gets counted.
Funded
by the Naeil
Foundation,
the KA Vote Task Force is a non-partisan nationwide Task Force recently formed
by first and to first and second generations of Korean Americans across the
United States to increase Korean American participation in the 2020 Census and
the Elections, which are the pillars of civic engagement and democracy. The
purpose of the Task Force is to ensure Korean American representation by being
properly counted and heard. It is led by the Korean
American Coalition (KAC)
and Korean
American Association of Greater New York (KAAGNY),
and supported by a growing number of Korean American Associations and
organizations. Please visit www.KAvote.org
to join or to learn more about the Census and to vote.