WASHINGTON, May 9 -- AAPI Data and the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) have submitted a joint letter on Feb. 18, 2025, to the U.S. Census Bureau, calling for significant changes to the proposed Race/Ethnicity Code List for the American Community Survey (ACS) and the 2030 Census. The organizations are advocating for more accurate data collection and reporting for Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities. In their letter to Shannon Wink of the Cens more ST

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- The AfroLatino Coalition has raised serious concerns about the U.S. Census Bureau's proposed methodology for collecting and tabulating race and ethnicity data in the upcoming 2030 Census and the annual American Community Survey (ACS). In a formal submission to the Department of Commerce Census Bureau, the coalition expressed fears that the proposed changes will lead to inaccurate categorization of Black Latino individuals, obscuring their unique social and economic realities more ST