JUST IN: The Biden administration is proposing major changes to the 2030 census and federal surveys that would change how Latinos are asked about their race and ethnicity and add a checkbox for 'Middle Eastern or North African.'
The recommendations come from a group of career civil servants who have been reviewing how to make data produced by the U.S. government better reflect the country's diversity. The last update to the standards on racial and ethnic data that the Census Bureau and other federal agencies must follow, in addition to any related federal laws, took place in 1997.this multiyear review effort, which began in 2014, after it was stalled by former President Donald Trump's administration.
Other preliminary recommendations by the working group of civil servants include requiring more federal agencies to ask for detailed responses about people's identities, such as"Chinese,""German,""Jamaican,""Lebanese,""Mexican" or"Samoan." Another proposal would remove outdated language from the government's current racial and ethnic data policy, including"Negro" as a term
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