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New 'Latino' and 'Middle Eastern or North African' checkboxes proposed for U.S. forms

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Hansi Lo Wang

Updated April 07, 2023

New proposals by the Biden administration would change how the U.S. census and federal surveys ask Latinos about their race and ethnicity and add a checkbox for "Middle Eastern or North African" to those forms. (Getty Images)

This article was originally published on January 26, 2023.

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