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A New Census Category for Middle East/North Africa Ethnicity?

The Census Bureau is exploring whether to create a new ethnic category on its questionnaires, for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent. The new category, requested by advocacy organizations, would be broader than the Arab ancestry data collected by the bureau since 1980. Read more at Fact Tank.

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