<body><div>Complete our Reader Survey for a chance to win a CTNewsJunkie mug on Nov. 11! ➔ ➔ ➔ TAP THIS RIBBON! Complete our Reader Survey for a chance to win a CTNewsJunkie mug on Nov. 11! ➔ ➔ ➔ TAP THIS RIBBON!<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4RKe2d_1H3mn1NU00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4RKe2d_1H3mn1NU00" width="1200" height="900" ><figcaption>U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro speaks as Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz looks on at Hamden Memorial Town Hall on Nov. 13, 2026. DeLauro and Bysiewicz were among the CT officials to protest changes to the 2030 census proposed by the federal government. Credit: Donald Eng / CTNewsJunkie</figcaption></figure>HAMDEN, CT — The proposed changes to the 2030 census could result in Connecticut’s population being undercounted by more than a quarter-million people, state officials said Friday. This could have ramifications in numerous areas, including a potential loss of congressional representation. Connecticut is among about two dozen states currently opposing the changes. Attorney General William Tong has called the proposals plainly illegal. “The president is trying to manipulate the census to give taxpayer funding and political power to the states that he favors,” said Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz. She and a handful of other officials, including Gov. Ned Lamont and U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, held a media briefing Friday morning at Hamden’s Memorial Town Hall to speak against the changes. <h2>What the census changes would do</h2>Some of the proposed changes to the census include removing questions about demographics, including ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. The 2030 census also would change how it counts immigrants, college students, and people with more than one residence. For example, the census would count college students at their parents’ homes, not where they spend three-quarters of the year. It also would count Connecticut residents who spend winters in Florida as Florida residents. The changes would result in the census undercounting Connecticut by about 250,000, Bysiewicz said. “That’s very important, not just for political representation but for federal funding,” Bysiewicz said. DeLauro said the census reflects who we are as a nation. “And we can’t allow anyone to manipulate the count or silence the voices for political gain,” she said. Patricia Rossi, co-president of the Connecticut League of Women Voters, said her organization had an interest in the census because the changes would affect children, people of color, homeless people, people who rent rather than own their homes, poor people, and people whose immigration status was in question. “This is not what the founders wanted from the census,” she said. “These changes will not help to produce the quality information we need to build a country that serves all of us.” <h2>Lamont questions the residency rule</h2>Lamont agreed with the other speakers that the census’s goal was to create an accurate picture of the nation’s population. “Facts are facts,” he said. He cited former New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s widely quoted comment that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. Lamont said he was particularly surprised by the proposed changes to establishing residency. “It’s going to be based upon the winter months, from early January through mid-April,” he said. “So you can live in Hamden for eight months of the year, and for some reason you want to go to Houston for a few months in the winter, you’d be a Houston, Texas resident.” That part of the census changes would cost the state a lot of money, Lamont said. “A lot of grants are made on a per-capita basis,” he said. “I don’t know why we don’t want to know the demographic information, so we have a little better information when it comes to disparities and can make sure we target that money in a more appropriate way.” </div></body>

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