A group of Minnesota legislators is urging the U.S. Census Bureau to reclassify several Asian ethnicities including Hmong people, arguing that the current classifications harm marginalized communities ...
Next year, just in time for the election, the federal government – by popular demand – will be rolling out a new list of possible ethnic and racial census classifications. The idea is to provide the ...
A group of Asian American lawmakers in Minnesota wrote a letter last year to U.S. Census Bureau Director Robert Santos, asking that the bureau “expeditiously recategorize” the Hmong, Lahu, and Tai Dam ...
*The Biden administration is seeking to change how the U.S. Census collects race and ethnicity data. A collection of civil servants called the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was convened by the ...
A large share of the U.S. Latino population doesn't identify with any of the current racial categories in the census, according to new 2020 Census Bureau data that shows "major shifts" in how ...