Glenda Joe, center, encourages students to help their parents fill out the 2020 census during a Make Youth Count meeting on Feb. 15, 2020. The census, taken during a year of COVID-19 challenges, is estimated to have undercounted 559,593 residents in a post-count analysis by the U.S. Census Bureau. Annie Mulligan / For The Texas Tribune
By Alexa Ura The Texas Tribune Tripped up by politics and the pandemic — and with only a last-minute investment in promotion by the state…
