by Diverse Elders | Jan 27, 2020
By Kayla Sawyer, Technical Communications Analyst, National Indian Council on Aging (NICOA) American Indians and Alaska Natives are the ethnic group with the highest undercount of any defined by the Census Bureau. Approximately 4.9 percent of American Indians and...
by Jenna McDavid | Jan 9, 2020
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay It’s 2020, which means the United States Census is coming! By April 1, every home in the United States will receive an invitation to participate in the census, our once-in-a-decade opportunity to ensure that our communities are...
by Diverse Elders | Oct 15, 2019
by Kayla Sawyer. This article originally appeared on the NICOA blog. The 2020 Census fails to ask two important questions that affect more than 43.5 million Americans. The missing questions address whether a U.S. resident is a caregiver for an adult family member or a...
by Elaine Sanchez Wilson | Sep 4, 2019
The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) recently launched its first set of census factsheets to bolster education and civic participation among Southeast Asian Americans (SEAAs) in 2020. These resources, which will be translated in-language, target the...
by Elaine Sanchez Wilson | May 6, 2019
My memories from childhood are extremely hazy. Most of what I can recall are fleeting feelings: the bliss in skipping around my Kindergarten classroom as I sang about the days of the week, the joy in jumping up and down on my parents’ bed as I watched “David the...