Social Security kept about 20.3 million, seniors as well as working-age adults receiving disability payments, out of poverty.

A variety of state, county, municipal, tribal and community-based organizations formed 11,800 Complete Count Committees during Census 2000.

Lawmakers continually questioned who those partners were, and whether the Census was digging deep enough into communities. They said their constituents in California, Utah and Texas had expressed dismay at widespread disorganization at the regional level.