As population tallies roll out, campuses and city halls worry a census interrupted by COVID-19 could choke available public dollars. Steve Patterson, the mayor of Athens, Ohio, had hoped last year's census would bring the city some good news. Athens, home of Ohio University, was just shy of 25,000 people, and breaking that threshold would make the city eligible for grants and other funding reserved for larger cities. But then the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the country just as the once-a-decade headcount was about to begin.
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