Census

2023-06-15T03:53:22+00:00June 15th, 2023|

The census should not be political. Blake Farenthold

The Multiracial Category Grows

2021-08-13T15:32:02+00:00August 13th, 2021|

  The Census Bureau has released its data from the 2020 Census on race and ethnicity. You have probably read the news stories or seen the videos on it. You can get more information at census.gov I though it would serve our users to hit the highlights for you after looking over all the data. These are the important points: The Multiracial population in America is 10.2 percent in 2020. The Black population grew by 88.7% since 2010 and is now at 14.2%, which means we have proven that the [...]

DID THE CENSUS BUREAU “ALLOW” MULTIRACIAL PEOPLE ANYTHING?

2020-10-19T13:53:46+00:00October 19th, 2020|

Did the Census Bureau “allow” multiracial people anything? A new scholarly paper has come out, published by Sage Publications. It’s called “How Policies Can Address Multiracial Stigma” and begins with this: On the second anniversary of the first U.S. Census that allowed Americans to indicate more than one race, public policies and interventions should consider addressing Multiracial-specific forms of stigma. Some of the writers of this paper have written before that the U.S. Census Bureau “allowed” multiracial people to choose more than one race in 1997. One of the writers, [...]

What’s getting some extra time…

2020-09-25T17:30:25+00:00September 25th, 2020|

The US Census. Yesterday, a federal judge barred the Trump admin from ending the 2020 Census a month early. Reminder: The admin had moved up the deadline from October 31 to September 30, saying it was needed in order to process all data before the end of the year. But civil rights groups sued, arguing it would lead to a serious undercount that would disproportionately impact immigrants and people of color. And a federal judge agreed. The census determines how many seats each state gets in the House. And how federal [...]

Census Forms Due!

2020-09-22T16:38:31+00:00September 16th, 2020|

Census forms are due by September 30th. You have two weeks to mail yours back or fill it in online. It’s important. Watch our Project RACE Census video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v72NslaIFNs

Think About This

2020-09-29T04:57:26+00:00December 30th, 2019|

How Racial Data Gets 'Cleaned' in the U.S. Census The national survey offers more identity choices than ever—until those choices get scrubbed away. An Object Lesson. Robyn Autry The 2010 United States Census allowed 63 possible responses for race.Ross D. Franklin / AP At a doctor’s visit, on a college-admissions application, or even in a consumer-marketing survey, Americans are regularly asked to classify themselves by race. Some protest this request by “declining to answer,” as forms often allow. After all, racial categories are social constructs. They don’t connote biological or [...]

BREAKING NEWS

2019-06-27T09:08:18+00:00June 27th, 2019|

Supreme Court Decision – CENSUS 5-4 decision on June 27, 2019 – In Department of Commerce v New York, the court sent back to a lower court a case on whether the census should contain a citizenship question, leaving in doubt whether the question will be on the 2020 census.

Census Question to give Republicans Edge?

2019-05-30T18:03:13+00:00May 30th, 2019|

  FILE - In this April 23, 2019 file photo, immigration activists rally outside the Supreme Court as the justices hear arguments over the Trump administration's plan to ask about citizenship on the 2020 census, in Washington. A new court filing Thursday, May 30 by lawyers opposing adding the citizenship question to the 2020 census alleges a longtime Republican redistricting expert played a key role in making the change. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) NEW YORK (AP) — A Republican redistricting expert advocated for adding a citizenship question to the [...]

A C.E.O.’s Plea: Don’t Mess With the Census

2020-09-29T02:19:16+00:00April 22nd, 2019|

American businesses rely on data from the census. Please don’t ruin it by adding a citizenship question. By David Kenny     A coalition of more than 30 states, cities and counties, led by New York State, recently won a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York challenging a decision by the Commerce Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census. The Department of Commerce appealed, and the case is scheduled to be argued at the Supreme Court on April 23. The plaintiffs argued that participation in [...]

Why I’ll Fill Out My Census Form

2020-09-08T22:56:50+00:00April 1st, 2019|

It only happens once every ten years and it is one year away. April 1 is the one year out milestone for the 2020 Census. We will be inundated in the next 12 months with messages from the Census Bureau about how important it is for every American to be counted. There will be a major media blitz reminding us of the repercussions if we don’t do as we’re told. There is even a monetary penalty for not participating and every envelope says, “Your response is required by law,” but [...]

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