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The Center for American Progress submitted comments to the U.S. Census Bureau regarding the proposed changes to the race/ethnicity code list for the American Community Survey and the 2030 census.
The 2020 census results described a rapidly growing ... The federal government is revising its race and ethnicity categories, merging the questions into a single query rather than addressing ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Linda Mahdesian grew up feeling a part of the black Chicago neighborhood in which she was raised. But as the daughter of a black father and white mother, she never felt completely at ...
Only one race could be selected, and people also had to state whether they were 'Hispanic or Latino', or not. In this year's census, a sixth racial category called 'Other Race' will be added ...
the Census Bureau implemented a new counting system alongside the old one. The old system retained single-race categories and grouped those who chose more than one race into a “two or more ...