The 276% increase largely happened because of a change in how people were classified by the U.S. Census Bureau rather than ...

Last March, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget approved changes to the ethnic and racial self-identification questions ...

Questions about race and ethnicity that previously were asked separately on forms will now be combined into a single question. That will give respondents the option to pick multiple categories at the ...

Roughly two millennia later, the United States government will ... the OMB combine the separate race and ethnicity categories into one question for the 2000 Census, and eliminate 'race' as a ...

As the U.S. Census Bureau gets public feedback about how it should tally people into new race and ethnicity groups, the agency has released new research reflecting how U.S. residents from ...