New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms Enlarge this image toggle caption RussellCreative/Getty Images RussellCreative/Getty Images The Biden administration is proposing major changes to forms for the 2030 census and federal government surveys that would transform how Latinos and people of Middle Eastern or North African descent are counted in statistics across the United …
The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications that have not been changed in a quarter century following calls for more accurate categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering. The need to change the current standards can be seen in 2020 census results in which the “some other race” category surpassed African …
The federal agency that measures racial diversity is led mostly by white people Enlarge this image toggle caption Claire Harbage/NPR Claire Harbage/NPR In her three years working at the U.S. Census Bureau, Mónica García-Pérez remembers rarely seeing or hearing people like her. While the civil servants she did meet were, as García-Pérez puts it, "very loyal to do the right …
Mail Delays Could Hurt The Census, Too Enlarge this image toggle caption Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images Updated at 12:18 p.m. Harris is asking whether DeJoy will "guarantee" that the Postal Service will deliver census forms postmarked by Sept. 30 to a Census Bureau data processing center by Oct. 7. Last month, Census Bureau Director …
