Now Census costs are exceeding inflation every year, said Census Director Robert Groves.

Groves said the agency needs to adapt new technologies and innovate its processes.

"We will either change or be changed; we cannot go on the way we are," Groves said in the NextGov article. "If we keep doing what we're doing were in trouble."

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