(Photo illustration by Diana Ramirez / De Los; photos by Luis Quintero, Cotton Bro Studios and Yogendra Singh) The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time ...

U.S. Census Bureau officials said Friday they are ready to start examining changes that would combine race and ethnicity questions and add a Middle Eastern and North African category to the 2030 ...

The census might drop some or all of the six large panethnic categories that now define what everyone calls “the race question,” and count instead those inhabitants who identify with descent ...

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The 2020 U.S. Census has finally released its most detailed findings on America's race and ethnicity. Venezuelans were recorded as the fastest-growing Hispanic group, and Asian Indians and Chinese ...

Is ancestry history? The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a person’s ancestry on its most comprehensive survey, saying it may duplicate a newly-revised race question ...

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — For Maytes Rivera, the U.S. census question about Hispanic origin was a no-brainer. Is she of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin? Rivera checked the box that said, "Yes, Puerto ...

FILE - An envelope containing a 2020 census letter mailed to a U.S. resident sits on a desk on on April 5, 2020, in Detroit. The U.S. Census Bureau is contemplating getting rid of a question about a ...

FILE - Residents have begun receiving the U.S. Census Bureau's request for information receiving letters with a census identification number to answer questions about their households online. U.S.