Diversity Management, News and Updates
While the idea of rural America may conjure up images of predominantly white, conservative populations, new research suggests that this perception could soon be changing. Chuck Abbott of Successful Farming reported that while three-quarters of people currently living in rural America are white — a larger proportion than the roughly…
Following a review of all 50 U.S. states across six key factors — socioeconomic diversity, cultural diversity, economic diversity, household diversity, religious diversity and political diversity — the personal finance website WalletHub has released a report detailing the most and least diverse states in the nation. “We evaluated those dimensions…
The U.S. Census Bureau published the 2020 Census in early August, revealing an increasingly diverse overall population within the United States — and, for the first time, a decline in people who identified solely as white. Although there has been a dramatic shift in U.S. demographics between 2010 and 2020,…
When the U.S. Census Bureau released their data from the 2020 Census late last week, it revealed just how dramatically the racial makeup of America has continued to change in recent years. After analyzing the data, Mike Schneider of the Associated Press reported that “no racial or ethnic group dominates…
President Biden and the U.S. Census Bureau are hoping to revive a previously proposed policy that would allow the 2030 survey to ask more accurate questions about race and ethnicity — and by extension, improve the quality of demographic data acquired and used toward policymaking, voting districts, and enforcing civil…
As more data from the 2020 Census emerges from the federal government, advocacy experts are becoming increasingly alarmed that vast swaths of minority segments, including Asian, Latinx, Black, and Indigenous populations, were severely undercounted during the last survey of the nation’s population conducted under the leadership of former President Donald…
The number of Latinx Americans over the age of 25 who have earned at least a bachelor’s degree increased by 30% over the past 15 years, according to new data from the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. However, despite the massive climb, that number still lags behind white, Asian American…
Between 2018 and 2019, there has been no progress toward closing the gender pay gap according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s recently released data. Still, the average working woman earns $0.82 for every dollar a white man earns. When broken down by race, the gaps widen further for many women…
Financial literacy is strongly connected to financial success. Saving for retirement, multiple streams of income and smart management of debt are all factors in a stable financial life. But a study published recently by the TIAA Institute and the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center (GFLEC) at the George Washington University…
Last week, the Supreme Court, the highest law in the U.S., ruled that the Trump administration had provided a “contrived” reason for wanting the citizenship question on the 2020 Census. Duh. It is already well known that Republicans want a citizenship question to create an advantage for their party and…
