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Census targets tech-savvy Hispanic youth Groups pushing for robust Hispanic participation in the 2010 census announced a new campaign Thursday that aims to reach the hard-to-count group through its smart-phone-toting youngsters.

The "Be Counted, Represent" campaign offers music downloads and a chance at concert tickets to cell phone users who share their e-mail addresses and phone numbers with organizers and forward information about the census to their friends.

They hope those messages promoting participation in the count will zip throughout the social networks of youngsters who can persuade their parents to fill out and return their census forms.

The campaign offers a package of 25 music downloads curated for a young Hispanic audience to cell phone users who share their zip codes, e-mail addresses and cell phone numbers with the program's organizers. The downloads include songs by such artists as Pitbull, Mos Def and Morrissey.

Organizers said such measures are a way to get through to an ethnic group that has been hard for census officials to reach because of indifference, language barriers and — for some — deportation fears.

- Posted on March 11, 2010
Submitted by KARINA267 on Monday, 06/07/2010 - 09:45.

i Have no idea what this is but by the looks of it sounds like it very important and a good idea to me..

Submitted by EvaZ22 on Thursday, 06/03/2010 - 23:43.

This is a good idea. I'm sure it will get more people from Latin descent to do the Census. The Census it very important, so the government can offer help to people who need it, I believe.

Submitted by lauraf. on Tuesday, 05/25/2010 - 10:42.

I find this slightly racist. If that deal is offered to Hispanic youth it is clearly discriminatory to whites, blacks, Asians and other races. Our country can never truly move on until we stop over-correcting for discrimination that happened in past generations. If this were white children getting special bribes while other children did not this issue would already be in the Supreme Court!-

Submitted by gundaker on Thursday, 05/13/2010 - 08:39.

This is a good idea. latinas do it better and we need to show that . Even though im half white i still rep the latin side . So we neeed to make ourselfs look good as well.

Submitted by rbbns326 on Thursday, 05/06/2010 - 12:59.

think this is a very smart idea because it will give people a reason to fill out there census. also people who are very stubborn about filling things out will do it just because of the free stuff so in my opinion we should do this just because more people would fill it out .

Submitted by ignacioperez on Wednesday, 05/05/2010 - 20:59.

The census should be filled out by all the people in the state that you're in. Its going to help us better in school an other important things. Without the census how are we going to get money to make living easier. If you don't fill it out i think it'll make it hard for other people and the goverment. If the people are afraid they should ask questions to the person.