From UCLA
With the April 1 decennial population count just around the corner, Bruin experts are weighing in on ways to make the Census as effective as possible for often under-served communities. At the Asian American Studies Center, for example, staffers are working with community leaders and nonprofits nationwide to train them in the expertise they'll need to tap the massive amounts of data generated by the Census, and, more critically, which helps determine how the federal government allocates more than $400 billion to states and communities. The center says its analysis of 2000 data played a pivotal part in policy-makers getting a better understanding of housing, health care, employment and other needs of Asian Americans, highlighting, for example, economic disparities among the disparate groups and dispelling the model minority myth that prevents help going to, say, the poor and needy Pacific Islanders, Hmong, Vietnamese and Cambodians. Meantime, the folks at the law school's Williams Institute are partnering with federal officials to ensure gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people get counted properly and to explain how best to tackle key but potentially tricky and troublesome questions that get asked by the government about their lives.
Asian studies center aiding nonprofits, community leaders in learning about key Census data
A partnership to ensure Census serves gay, lesbian communities well
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