Who Counts?: The Politics and Policy Implications of the 2010 Census
Baker Center luncheon featuring
Charles Louis Kincannon, former director of the US Census Bureau
February 22, 11:30 am – 1:00 p.m.
Howard H. Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy
Toyota Auditorium
$15 for lunch
RSVP by Feb. 15 to 974-0931 or Betsy Harrell at [log in to unmask]
As the former director of the U.S. Census Bureau, Mr. Kincannon will discuss
the political and policy implications of this year’s decenniel census.
Information collected in the census are crucial in apportioning seats in the
U.S. House of Representatives and deciding how more than $400 billion dollars
of federal funding each year is spent on infrastructure and services such as
hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, public works projects
and emergency services. He will also discuss how the census counts people
and whether to count immigrants (documented or not), where to count
prisoners, and how to deal with university students, American resident
overseas, or persons with residences in two states.
Mr. Kincannon began his career at the US Census Bureau in 1963 after
graduating from the University of Texas at Austin. In 1975, he joined the staff
of the Office of Management and Budget, where he worked on statistical and
regulatory policy. He also served as the statistical liaison to Vice President
Nelson Rockefeller’s office and provided administrative leadership that
supported the successful implementation of the first Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1980. He returned to the Census Bureau in September 1981 and was
appointed as deputy director and chief operating officer in January 1982 by
President Reagan’s first director of the Census Bureau, Bruce Chapman. He
served as deputy director to John G. Keane in the Reagan administration and
Barbara Everitt Bryant in the George H. W. Bush administration. Kincannon
served as acting director from July 1983 to March 1984 and again from
January to December 1989, during which time he directed the final
preparations for the 1990 census. Throughout his tenure with the federal
government, Mr. Kincannon received several awards recognizing his
contributions, including the Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Service and
the Department of Commerce Gold Medal. In October 1992, Mr. Kincannon
was appointed as the first chief statistician in the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris. He coordinated the
organization’s statistical programs and advised the OECD secretary general on
statistical policy. He left this post in June 2000 to return to the United
States. In 2001 he was appointed as director of the US Census Bureau by
President George W. Bush and served in that capacity until his retirement in
2008.
Amy K. Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Communications and Public Programming
Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
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