September 30th, 20220DEARBORN — U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-Michigan) brought Robert Santos, the director of the U.S. Census Bureau, to Dearborn this week to meet with members of the local Arab American community and local officials.
The two visited Dearborn and Detroit on Monday for two roundtable meetings to discuss how to improve the process of...
June 20th, 20220By Ahlam Yassin
Tell me the first words that come to mind when you think of the Middle East. My usually talkative class was quiet. I, their visibly Muslim, Arab American teacher looked around the classroom during a dramatic pause and in the moment I realized how strange this may have seemed to them.
After a minute or so, a brave soul...
April 29th, 20210The U.S. Census Bureau unveiled its first wave of data from the 2020 Census on Monday, April 29, showing Michigan’s population has grown by 2 percent since 2010’s count.
The population growth means more federal funding for the state, an approximately $250 million a year increase, which will be spread across state programs, grants...
April 26th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Monday, the U.S. Census Bureau will release the data that determines whether states gain or lose congressional seats and Electoral College votes, setting the stage for a pitched battle over redistricting that could reshape political power in Washington for a decade.
Under the U.S. Constitution, the 435 seats...
February 10th, 20210WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Census Bureau Acting Director Dr. Ron Jarmin recently issued an update about last year’s census count. The update is on the quality of the data procured in the census count.
“We cannot (analyze the quality of our data) in detail until we complete the Post-Enumeration Survey later this year,” he said...
October 16th, 20200After a Supreme Court ruling this week allowed the Department of Commerce to stop Census enumeration efforts by Friday, Oct. 16, advocates point to other pending rulings and to the Nov. 3 elections as important determinants of what happens with the data that has been collected by the Census Bureau.
Arturo Vargas, executive director of...
September 1st, 20200LANSING — A large coalition of attorneys general, including Michigan’s Dana Nessel, have joined several cities, counties and mayors to take legal action against the Trump administration over its reduction of the 2020 census deadline.
The U.S. Census Bureau took an unexplained step earlier this month, shortening the schedule...
February 3rd, 20200LANSING – Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson announced on Monday that Zaineb A. Hussein will serve as Michigan Department of State deputy chief of staff starting Feb. 10.
“Zaineb brings a combination of government, policy and engagement experience and insight that will serve our team tremendously,” Benson said. “She has...
January 20th, 20200What is the Census?
The U. S. Constitution requires that the federal government count every person living in the U.S. The Census has been conducted every 10 years since 1790.
Why is the Census important?
Every year, the federal government gives money it has collected from taxes back to the states. How much money a state gets...
November 23rd, 20190DETROIT — In a Wednesday teleconference, leaders from the U.S. Census Bureau briefed media outlets that serve the Middle Eastern/North African (MENA) communities on the status of the 2020 Census, describing the efforts underway for all people to be accurately counted and the opportunity for individuals to apply for temporary jobs...
October 26th, 20190DETROIT – Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson joined other officials and community leaders on Thursday, Oct. 24, in Detroit to announce the state’s new Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission. The state is now accepting applications from eligible Michigan residents to help draw the state’s next political district...
July 22nd, 20190DEARBORN — Dr. Hayg Oshagan, director of New Michigan Media (NMM) and professor of communications at Wayne State University, recently sat down with The Arab American News Publisher Osama Siblani for a discussion about the 2020 Census and the role of ethnic and minority media outlets in ensuring a complete and accurate count.
NMM...
July 13th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Trump took to the podium in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday to announce that the citizenship question will not be included in the 2020 Census. Instead, he has issued an executive order to every federal department and agency to provide the Commerce Department with records of the number of citizens...
July 5th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Justice Department is now looking for ways to include the citizenship question back to the 2020 census form after President Trump vowed to stay the course on the issue on Wednesday.
Trump ignored the time limitations and legal opinions issued at the end of last month by the U.S. Supreme Court that indicated...
June 30th, 20190WASHINGTON, D.C. – A lack of an adequate explanation for the addition of the citizenship question to next year’s Census form has led the U.S. Supreme Court to rule against such an addition.
The decision is a significant blow to President Trump’s efforts to undermine the count and prevent nearly 6.5 million people in the country...
April 5th, 20191DETROIT — Officials and community leaders gathered on Monday, April 1, to kickoff the Detroit 2020 Census effort. In a packed room at Focus: Hope in Detroit, Mayor Mike Duggan shared the podium with U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit), Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) and members from Detroit’s various nonprofit and activist organizations...
August 19th, 20180WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the U.S. government closed a public comment period on Wednesday on its plans for the 2020 Census, scientists, philanthropists and civil rights groups used the occasion to again criticize plans to include a question about U.S. citizenship.
The comment period gave any member of the public a chance to comment on...
July 29th, 20182Civil rights leaders joined Census policy experts on July 17 in an urgent plea, particularly to communities of color, for a show of public activism and force to derail a fast-moving Trump administration effort to officially ignore them. The fight begins by taking full advantage of a narrow window of opportunity in which to speak out...
July 4th, 20180NEW YORK — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered President Trump’s administration to hand information about its plan to ask people filling out the 2020 census form whether they are U.S. citizens over to a group of states and cities suing the administration over the question.
At a hearing in Manhattan federal court, U.S. District...
April 13th, 20180DEARBORN – Even as the city looks to a new dawn of economic prosperity with a wide range of major investments, it could be dealt a blow two in two years.
Residents, city officials and community advocates are anxious about the implications of a proposed question on the 2020 Census that would ask people if they’re citizens.
They...
April 6th, 20180NEW YORK — A group of states and cities sued the Trump administration to stop it from asking people filling out 2020 census forms whether they are citizens.
The lawsuit by 17 states, Washington D.C. and six cities challenged what they called last week’s “unconstitutional and arbitrary” decision by the Department of Commerce,...
