Because this type of discrimination is the gateway drug of the identity politics balkanizing America, Tuesday's decision is a boost for unity and a setback for those who want to divide Americans.
Just last Friday, the two of us published a Heritage Foundation paper calling on the administration to stop giving preferential treatment on the basis of "Race, color, national origin or ethnicity in any of its programs and activities."
Yes, since the first one in our history in 1790, the U.S. Census has asked a question about race-but that has always been something quite incidental to apportionment and taxation.
Reinstating a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census is a small but salubrious step.
By 2017, the Census itself would boast that 132 federal programs used Census Bureau data "To distribute more than $675 billion in funds during fiscal year 2015," a figure which will grow to more $800 billion by the 2020 Census.
With this much money at stake, it is little wonder that special interest organizations based on race and ethnic identities have sought, often successfully, to control the Census.
In addition to eliminating racial or ethnic qualifications, the government should also state that no data on countries of descent of Americans' ancestry should be used to favor any particular groups in funding, employment, or contracting.
As U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in 2007, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
>>> Read the new paper, "Eliminating Identity Politics from the U.S. Census," by Gonzalez and von Spakovsky, here.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/04/eliminating-identity-politics-from-the-schools-and-the-us-census/
Just last Friday, the two of us published a Heritage Foundation paper calling on the administration to stop giving preferential treatment on the basis of "Race, color, national origin or ethnicity in any of its programs and activities."
Yes, since the first one in our history in 1790, the U.S. Census has asked a question about race-but that has always been something quite incidental to apportionment and taxation.
Reinstating a question about citizenship in the 2020 Census is a small but salubrious step.
By 2017, the Census itself would boast that 132 federal programs used Census Bureau data "To distribute more than $675 billion in funds during fiscal year 2015," a figure which will grow to more $800 billion by the 2020 Census.
With this much money at stake, it is little wonder that special interest organizations based on race and ethnic identities have sought, often successfully, to control the Census.
In addition to eliminating racial or ethnic qualifications, the government should also state that no data on countries of descent of Americans' ancestry should be used to favor any particular groups in funding, employment, or contracting.
As U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in 2007, "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."
>>> Read the new paper, "Eliminating Identity Politics from the U.S. Census," by Gonzalez and von Spakovsky, here.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/04/eliminating-identity-politics-from-the-schools-and-the-us-census/
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