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The Census is changing its categories on race and ethnicity. Here's what that means for Latinos
The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time ... but the new approach will give us more detailed data about Latinos in terms of their origin ...
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United States changes race, ethnicity categories
As president, Trump unsuccessfully tried to disqualify people who were in the United States illegally from being included in the 2020 census. Momentum for changing the race and ethnicity ...
The American Conservative3y
Checking the Census Frenzy
The torrent of public commentary triggered by the Census Bureau’s new report on race and ethnicity instructs us less about the fine points of demographic change and more about what’s on ...
Psychology Today6y
Race and Ethnicity
At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...
Nature9y
Census, race and science
Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...
Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette2mon
Feedback sought as census ethnicity questions reworked
The new race and ethnicity categories will be used by the Census Bureau starting in the 2027 American Community Survey -- the most comprehensive survey of U.S. life -- and the 2030 census, which ...
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Robert Santos decides to resign as US Census Bureau director midway through a 5-year term
The census numbers also guide the distribution of $2.8 trillion in federal dollars to the states for roads ... it comes to sexual orientation and gender identity, as well as race and ethnicity. The ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency4y
A census question poses a dilemma for American Jews — are you white, and if so, what are your ‘origins’?
A roundup of answers reveals a community grappling with what it means to announce one’s Jewishness today, and to consider the paths that have brought American Jews to the present day. WASHINGTON ...
NPR2d
Code Switch
We explore how race affects every part of society — from politics and pop culture to history, food and everything in between. This podcast makes all of us part of the conversation — because we ...
JSTOR Daily2y
Maternal educational attainment and infant mortality in the United States: Does the gradient vary by race/ethnicity and nativity?
OBJECTIVE We investigate whether maternal education–infant mortality gradients vary by race/ethnicity and nativity among infants born to mothers in the United States. METHODS We use data from the 1998 ...
U.S. News & World Report2y
States With the Biggest Gender Wage Gaps
That’s the difference between the annual median earnings of full-time male and female workers across the U.S., according to the latest data from the U.S. Census American Community Survey.