The Latest Breaking News from Office of Management and Budget

Feds taking first steps toward revising race, ethnic terms

The federal government is taking preliminary steps toward revising racial and ethnic classifications on census and survey forms for the first time in a quarter century following calls for better categories for how people identify themselves in federal data gathering

The Independent UK · Jun 16, 2022

Democrats, GOP take contrasting views on LGBTQ survey bill

An effort to be more inclusive or attempted intrusion by the federal government

The Independent UK · Jun 14, 2022

How Well Do You Know America's Racial Classification System? (First of a Series)

As discussed in my forthcoming book Classified, contrary to popular belief, racial and ethnic classification in the US is not solely a matter of personal choice. The federal Office of Management and Budget created a classification scheme in 1978 to be used by all federal agencies, and barely amended since.…

Reason · Jun 14, 2022