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A Step in the Right Direction: U.S. Census Bureau Release Reveals Important Information on the Arab American Community

September 27, 2023

By Salma Heram

By Salma Heram / Arab America Contributing Writer On September 21, 2023, the U.S. Census Bureau released the Detailed Demographic and Housing Characteristics File A (Detailed DHC-A), which revealed that 3.5 million Americans reported being Middle Eastern and North African in the 2020 Census. While this number is an underrepresentation of the true number of … Continued

A New Step Towards MENA Recognition with the Office of Management and Budget-OMB

September 21, 2022

By Mariam Alyakoob

By: Mariam Alyakoob / Arab America Contributing Writer Americans of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent, who are meant to fill in the White category box in the U.S. Census, have been fighting for decades to include a separate classification. It seems that there may be some progress towards achieving this. The U.S. federal … Continued

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