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The U.S. Census Bureau says improvements to the design of the 2020 census questions and the tabulating of answers led to an increase in the count of multiracial people in the United States

When 2020 census results were released more than three years ago, they showed a 276% boom in the number of people classified as multiracial in the United States since 2010

When we think of the concept of the family, a specific version often springs to mind: a mother, a father and children, usually two or three. It’s the version of society our policies and systems are built around.

"These oversights have significant implications for policy development and resource allocation," said the study's co-author

Filling out forms that ask for racial and ethnic identification can be a struggle for many Latinos, especially when there is not one box that reflects their identity

"It is clear that the Government has no intention whatsoever to conduct the Census that was last due in 2021." Read further on Dynamite News:

Adding a citizenship question to the census reduces the participation of people who aren’t U.S. citizens, particularly those from Latin American countries

The 2022 South African census set an undesirable record: it is the census with the highest undercount among those where the undercount is measured and reported by the United Nations Population Division. The reported undercount of 31% is some 10 percentage points higher than the previous highest notified undercount (in…

According to U.S. Census Bureau data analyzed by the Pew Research Center, there is a 291% growth in the number of Hispanic women earning advanced degrees from 2000 to 2021. Whereas, the percentage has spiked by 199% in Hispanic men.