The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.
The U.S. census will make a change for the first time in 27 years regarding race and ethnicity in its data collection. One updated standard includes adding a Middle Eastern or North African American ...
For the first time in 27 years, the US Census Bureau announced it would make a major change to the "race" and "ethnicity" ...
Advocacy groups say better data is key to helping communities identify needs and secure resources in such areas as health, ...
Written in bland and unassuming language, newly released policy changes to how the U.S. government and Census categorizes ...
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the ...
The proposal could change how race and ethnicity are measured across the country, from statewide and local records on police violence to health disparity data. But for many people, it’s much more ...
Arab Americans across the U.S. have been fighting to get MENA included for data collection on federal forms for decades.
Arab American community leaders are celebrating a new federal rule to more accurately count people with Middle Eastern and ...
Increased information transfer from the IRS would improve the quality of data at the Census Bureau and expand opportunities ...
As a Puerto Rican, I refuse to mark white on the census. But adding a racial box for Latinos discounts our very different ...
In short: The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has decided against collecting ethnicity data in the 2026 census after ...