Communities excluded from the national census must be represented and included

2024.05.21

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Communities excluded in the national census — Communities excluded from the national census will be represented and included; the Office of Management and Budget expanded its rules on race and ethnicity, seeking to make everyone visible and represented.

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Communities excluded from the national census will be represented and included; for the first time since 1997, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) expanded its rules on race and ethnicity, seeking to make all people visible and represented in federal data collection.

During a briefing held by Ethnic Media Services, Experts discussed how new standards regarding race and ethnicity have been included by OMB to ensure clarity in data collection and to ensure that needs are heard and communities are represented.