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Months Before 2020 Census Gets Underway, State Nonprofits Boost Campaigns

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One such group, announced this week, is called the CountMeInWV Coalition, which is bringing together more than 25 West Virginia-based nonprofits in professional, service, and advocacy sectors. Beyond awareness, organized Census campaigns are at times taking on an advocacy angle.

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Hawaii’s Optics Problem: A Travel Hotspot Struggles With Meetings Business

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Instead, the group chose a more-landlocked venue: West Virginia. In May, hundreds of public pension employees stayed away from the National Conference of Public Employee Retirement Systems’ annual meeting in Honolulu. Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie had pushed hard for his state to get the event. “It I can assure you that.”

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