{"id":364246,"date":"2026-10-04T17:20:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364246\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T17:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T17:20:23","slug":"speaker-menin-on-federal-efforts-that-could-change-census","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/364246\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Menin on federal efforts that could change census"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In Focus&#8221; host Cheryl Wills continues her one-on-one conversation with City Council Speaker Julie Menin, focusing on federal efforts that could change who is counted in the 2030 census.<\/p>\n<p>Menin discusses concerns about excluding noncitizens, potential legal challenges, and why New York is organizing now to protect funding, representation, and an accurate count.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;In Focus&#8221; host Cheryl Wills continues her one-on-one conversation with City Council Speaker Julie Menin, focusing on federal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7488,7490,7423,7487,9,24,63,134,136,135,200],"class_list":["post-364246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-in-focus","tag-cheryl-wills","tag-in-focus","tag-in-focus-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}