Senator Peters hosts Census Director Robert Santos in Dearborn, Detroit

September 30th, 20220 DEARBORN — 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...

Tlaib continues push for MENA category in census and federal data

June 14th, 20220 DETROIT — U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) is continuing her effort to include the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) category in federal population and health data, as well as the 10-year federal census. Talib joined U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) in leading the House Committee on Oversight and Reform to send...

Secretary of State says Dearborn has authority to expand voting access by translating election materials

April 1st, 20220 DEARBORN — An effort to bring federally guaranteed language access to Dearborn’s multilingual population continues to see resistance. Last week, the Dearborn City Council passed a resolution, brought forth by Councilman Mustapha Hammoud, that sought to ensure ballots and other election materials would be translated into multiple...

Michigan loses congressional seat as census data shows slow population growth

April 29th, 20210 The 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...

New U.S. census data will show which states gain or lose House seats

April 26th, 20210 WASHINGTON, 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...

Census bureau admits problems arose in 2020 count, but confident in data quality

February 10th, 20210 WASHINGTON, 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...

Not all is lost after Census count stops, civil rights advocates say

October 16th, 20200 After 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...