Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

Key statistics and data about the demographic, geographic and economic characteristics of the U.S. Black population.

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time ... but the new approach will give us more detailed data about Latinos in terms of their origin ...

As president, Trump unsuccessfully tried to disqualify people who were in the United States illegally from being included in the 2020 census. Momentum for changing the race and ethnicity ...

Overall, 139 of today’s senators and representatives identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian American or Native American.

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The torrent of public commentary triggered by the Census Bureau’s new report on race and ethnicity instructs us less about the fine points of demographic change and more about what’s on ...

At the genetic level, any two people are more than 99 percent the same as each other, no matter their skin color or ethnic origin. Still, both race ... In the United States, for example, Asian ...

The new race and ethnicity categories will be used by the Census Bureau starting in the 2027 American Community Survey -- the most comprehensive survey of U.S. life -- and the 2030 census, which ...