Biden Wants Census To See 'Invisible' Groups: LGBTQ, Middle Eastern, North African
As the incoming Biden administration prepares for office, the Census Bureau is already looking ahead to changes for the 2030 count.
While Biden's transition team has not announced any specific policies yet for the next once-a-decade tally of the country's residents, the president-elect's campaign has previewed what could end up on the new administration's agenda. They include ideas that gained steam during the Obama administration but stalled after President Trump took office.
Biden will direct federal agencies to "improve their collection efforts, including enhancing demographic information around race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability status," Jamal Brown, the national press secretary for the Biden-Harris campaign, told NPR in a
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