The same report found that 89.4% of SNAP recipients were U.S born citizens, meaning less than 11% of SNAP participants were foreign-born. Of the latter figure, 6.2% were naturalized citizens, 1.1% ...

The Office of Management and Budget announced Thursday that the U.S. government would revise how it categorizes race and ethnicity, adding the category of “Middle Eastern or North African” to forms ...

The 2030 U.S. Census will include new race and ethnicity checkboxes for Hispanic people and people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, the Office of Management and Budget announced Thursday, ...

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.

It’ll be just one short answer on one government form, a few jots that figure to have only a limited impact on any individual’s day-to-day life. But for Neda Sasani, 44, merely having the chance to ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers examined disparities in mortality rates by ethnicity, race, educational attainment, social vulnerability, and rurality, ascribed to ...

This research note presents a new perspective on the rural mortality penalty in the United States. While previous work has documented a growing rural mortality penalty, there has been a lack of ...

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing racial or ethnic groups ...

Unlocking the power of health equity demands acknowledging a stark truth: race and ethnicity matter in cancer control planning. The current absence of robust and carefully analyzed race and ethnicity ...

Cancer Causes & Control, Vol. 32, No. 8 (August 2021), pp. 883-894 (12 pages) Introduction Esophageal cancer (EC) is an aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis. Mortality and disease stage at ...