Editor’s Note: In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, California’s State Treasurer Fiona Ma wrote this call-to-action to Chinese Americans, especially those living in her home town San Francisco: Fill out the census, or risk losing hard won gains! Chinese...
The changing face of Texas Asian Americans are the fourth largest and the fastest growing ethnic group in Texas, but a census delay could leave them out of the reckoning in the final census count. Since 2006, Texas – the second largest state in the union –...
For generations, millions of Americans whose roots lie in the Middle East and North Africa — MENA — have essentially become invisible people because the Census Bureau has denied requests for their own racial category. “Legally, in America, I’m classified as white,”...
Dr. Hamoud Salhi was excited about completing his very first US census form. As a professor of political science, he understood why the decennial mattered. He had studied census processes in Algeria, his country of origin, and currently teaches ‘cultural pluralism’...
The 2020 census, now in its second month of collecting data, is on track to be “one of the most incomplete in history,” according to UCLA researcher and advisor to the U.S. Census Bureau Paul Ong. In keeping with past collections, kids younger than 5, people of color,...
Every 10 years, the US census takes a snapshot count of every person who lives in the United States, as of April 1st. According to 2015 data, more than 80% of total federal funds received by California was related to the census. Since Federal funds support more than...
