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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

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The Student Voice of Fordham Lincoln Center

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NORA HAFEZ, Contributing Writer

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Workers at the Phoenix Data Capture Center use computers to input census data. The computers read handwritten forms correctly more than 99.4 percent of the time. Technology has improved the accuracy and speed of tabulating the population of the country. (PHOTO BY U.S. CENSUS BUREAU VIA PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER VIA TNS)

Our Census Needs a MENA Category

September 28, 2015
For years, Arab Americans have been able to fill out the census, but with a sense of disbelonging as they feel that "white" doesn't describe their culture.
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