By Ana Celia Zentlla Last week, after years of urging, the Census Bureau released this statement: In response to concerns expressed by data user groups, the Census Bureau decided to eliminate the term “linguistic isolation” for data products issued starting in 2011. We have changed the terminology to one that we feel is [...]
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Happy Cinco de Mayo…and Every Day.
April 29, 2011
Nielsen provides a reflection of diversity By Monica Gil SVP Public Affairs at The Nielsen Company The glorious celebration of Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner, eagerly anticipated in cities and communities throughout the country. America is a wondrous tapestry of many colorful threads, it is important to acknowledge everything that makes [...]
50 millones de hispanos ¿Pa’ qué?
April 1, 2011
Por Rafael Prieto Zartha La Oficina del Censo acaba de revelar que somos más de 50 millones de hispanos en Estados Unidos, exactamente 50,477,594, y que nos hemos consolidado como la minoría más grande, con un porcentaje de 16.3, en contraste con los afroamericanos que constituyen 12.6 y los asiáticos que alcanzaron a ser [...]
Hispanic Census numbers are staggering!
April 1, 2011
Editorial: By now you have probably heard about the US Census numbers from the 2010 Census. His-panics accounted for 56 percent of the nation’s growth; most of this growth reflects new births. While indeed these numbers are staggering for the general public, for the Hispanic community this growth has been self-evident. We have seen [...]
Census: A More Diverse California Means Big Political Changes Ahead
March 11, 2011
By Nina Martin New America Media The most diverse state in the nation became even more so over the past decade, with big shifts in California’s ethnic populations certain to trigger seismic changes in its political landscape as well. Even as the state’s overall population grew more slowly than at any time in [...]
Hispanics as well as non-Hispanics need to assimilate
January 7, 2011
By Patrick Osio For as long as can be remembered, San Diego County was home to a Western-European descendant population that politically and economically controlled the region. The other ethnic and racial group minorities were tolerated, as long as they were passive in their demands and submissive to the will of the majority. [...]
Political Power? Maybe
December 30, 2010
Commentary: By Angelo Falcón The announcement this week of the 2010 Census population count didn’t tell us how many Latinos there were in the United States today, but it did tell us that Latinos are poised to became a powerful political force. Maybe. The Census revealed that U.S. population growth in the last [...]
Hispanic-owned businesses on the rise, Census Bureau finds
July 23, 2010
By Alejandra Matos Scripps Howard Foundation Wire Hispanic-owned businesses are booming across the United States, specifically in the South. Arkansas had a 160 percent increase in Hispanic-owned business, growing from 2,094 businesses in 2002 to 5,457 in 2007, according to a study released Tuesday by the U.S. Census Bureau. “Our Hispanic community [...]
Hagamos que nuestra comunidad cuente en el Censo
April 2, 2010
Como una organización nacional latina que capacita a las latinas a través de desarrollo de liderazgo, oportunidades de servicio a la comunidad e información, MANA le da la bienvenida al Censo del 2010 y a la llegada de los formularios del censo a todos los hogares en Estados Unidos. Como una de las herramientas más [...]
Cuestionarios del Censos del 2010 Llegan a 120 Millones de Buzones A Través de la Nación
March 19, 2010
Con sólo 10 preguntas y tomando alrededor de 10 minutos para completarlo, los cuestionarios del Censo del 2010 comenzarán a llegar este semana a 120 millones de buzones a través de la nación, siendo la vigésima tercera vez que el país lleva a cabo el mandato constitucional del conteo de la población, conducido desde el [...]
Census: Masking Identities or Counting the Indigenous Among Us?
March 5, 2010
By Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez New America Media It was when I first stood atop the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico in 1976 that I was finally able to grasp something my parents first communicated to me when I was five years old; that my roots on this continent are not simply Mexican, [...]
La Oficina del Censo Lanza 2010census.gov en Español
January 29, 2010
Refuerza la Confidencialidad de las Respuestas en la Comunidad Hispana Con un tono innovador, diferente y completamente digital, la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos lanza hoy su página web en español del Censo del 2010, www.2010census.gov/espanol. La página web tiene como objetivo informar a los más de 34 millones de personas que [...]
Strength in Numbers?
January 8, 2010
The 2010 Census will unveil the Hispanic presence in the U.S. An accurate count may lead to improved conditions. By: Alice Gomez and Lucia Matthews As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The upcoming 2010 U.S. Census, what the official Census web-site refers to as a “portrait of America”, may up [...]
Proposed census change would reveal undocumented immigrants
October 23, 2009
By Emily Mullin Scripps Howard Foundation Wire WASHINGTON — Representatives of 29 civil rights organizations gathered on Capitol Hill Tuesday to express their opposition to legislation that would require individuals to indicate their citizenship status in the 2010 census. Simon Rosenberg, president of the liberal Washington think tank NDN, said the amendment put forth by [...]





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