For the first time in 27 years, the US Census Bureau announced it would make a major change to the "race" and "ethnicity" ...
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 ...
Americans whose ancestors came from the MENA region don't need a new government-designed race to validate their ethnicities, ...
The recommendations include using one combined question for race and ethnicity identity with the option for respondents to ...
Written in bland and unassuming language, newly released policy changes to how the U.S. government and Census categorizes ...
As a Puerto Rican, I refuse to mark white on the census. But adding a racial box for Latinos discounts our very different ...
Before the successful, healthy birth of her son, recalls Germine Awad — an Egyptian American who is a psychologist at the ...
Arab American community leaders are celebrating a new federal rule to more accurately count people with Middle Eastern and ...
To properly direct government help and resources to the people who need it most, data should be split up among the many ...
Arab Americans across the U.S. have been fighting to get MENA included for data collection on federal forms for decades.
The government soon will view Latino as a race, not an ethnicity. Same for Middle Eastern and North African and South Asian.
In recent years, the census has asked respondents a combination of questions on their country of birth, ancestry, language spoken and religion. There's now a call for the Australian Bureau of ...