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Advocacy groups also spoke out against the decision, citing intimidation as reason immigrant populations may fail to participate in the census. In Asian American communities, individuals are already at risk of being undercounted due to language barriers, poverty, status, and housing stability. According to calculations from the 2010 census, one in five Asian Americans lives in census tracts that are considered “hard to count” for those reasons.
Advancing Justice | AAJC Appeals to Congress to Stop Citizenship Question on Census
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Washington, D.C. — March 27, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Commerce announced a decision late last night to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census.
In response, Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC President and Executive Director, John C. Yang, who serves as a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on National Advisory Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Populations, issues the following statement:
Advancing Justice | AAJC Says Spending Bill Hits the Mark on Census, Disappoints on Immigration
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Washington, D.C. — March 22, 2018 — Today, Congress is set to vote on an omnibus spending bill to avoid another government shutdown.
John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, issues the following statement in response to the spending bill:
WASHINGTON — Congressional lawmakers, mayors and civil rights activists are ramping up efforts to urge federal officials to reject a request to include a controversial question about citizenship in the upcoming Census.
With only weeks before the deadline to submit questions for the 2020 Census, the groups are calling on Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross to turn down a request from the Justice Department to ask respondents if they are citizens.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice | AAJC, NALEO, and the National LGBTQ Task Force submitted joint comments and recommendations to address the American Community Survey (ACS) Methods Panel test plan.
Advancing Justice | AAJC Disappointed by Census Bureau About-Face on Race and Ethnicity Questions
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Washington, D.C. — January 26, 2018 — The U.S. Census Bureau announced its plans to use 2010 Census-style race and ethnicity questions for the 2018 End-to-End Test rather than updating the questions per recommendations of its staff for a combined question on race and ethnicity that provided detailed checkboxes for all groups and included a new response category for the Middle Eastern or North African (MENA) communities. The U.S.
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