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    Mark Hedin

    Mark Hedin is a reporter for Ethnic Media Services. He has previously written for the San Francisco Examiner, the San Francisco Chronicle, the East Bay Times, Central City Extra, and SF State’s Golden Gater, as well as other papers.

    Congress ‘Has a Role to Play’ in Setting National Voting Rights Standards

    A series of contradictory rulings by the Supreme Court in cases involving redistricting highlight the need for Congress to set national voting rights standards.

    La Oficina del Censo se embarca en una ola de contrataciones

    La Oficina del Censo informa que ha completado su proceso de verificación de direcciones para enviar notificaciones por correo sobre el Censo 2020. Ahora,...

    Census Bureau embarks on a hiring blitz

    The Census Bureau reports having completed its process of verifying addresses for purposes of mailing notifications about the 2020 Census. Now, it is hiring...

    Central Valley Investment Booms But Leaves Workers Behind

    Beneath all that economic activity and seeming prosperity lies another, harsher reality of unemployment, poverty, air pollution and contaminated drinking water.

    Census experts, youth advocates tackle getting California’s kids counted

    On Friday, Sept. 27, youth advocates and census experts, from left, Mayra Alvarez, president of The Children’s Partnership, Robert Clinton of the San Francisco...

    El Paso congresswoman, rights leaders decry white supremacist Washington, D.C., talk-radio event

    Veronica Escobar, congresswoman for Texas’ 16th congressional district (Photo: escobar.house.gov). Organizers have a long and growing history of promoting anti-immigrant policies By Mark Hedin Ethnic Media Services The...

    Why Water Now Flows in East Porterville – Community Outreach the Key

    Prop. 1 funding has helped advance a long list of projects up and down the state to provide Californians safe drinking water.

    New UCLA Study – State Makes Progress on Goal To Guarantee Water as a Human Right

    Study concludes CA is meeting or exceeding the explicit goals for funding improvements in disadvantaged communities.

    Journalists Lament Big Tech’s Footprint on News

    From left: Laura Bassett, Neil Chase, John Stanton, Mark DeSaulnier, Audrey Cooper and Ken Gude discussed journalism industry challenges in a July 31 panel...

    Tulsi Gabbard Briefs Ethnic Media – We Need Unity and Diplomacy to Counter War and Climate Change

    Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawaii, spent an hour fielding questions from a diverse array of ethnic media journalists in a teleconference on Friday, Aug....

    Andrew Yang brings presidential campaign to ethnic media

    Presidential candidate Andrew Yang addressed ethnic media reporters on July 23 in a conference hosted by EMS.  First in a series of ethnic media conversations...

    앤드류 양 후보가 소수민족 미디아와 대통령 캠페인을 논하다

    Presidential candidate Andrew Yang addressed ethnic media reporters on July 23 in a conference hosted by EMS.  First in a series of ethnic media conversations...

    Looking For Short Term Work? 2020 Census May Want You

    The Census Bureau has said it expects to hire about a half-million people nationwide to help in its all-important counting of everybody living in the United States.

    Stockton Kicks Off Census Complete Count Effort: ‘We’re Not Going Back’

    “We have no interest in going back to 1950,” said Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs at an event geared toward ensuring an accurate 2020 Census count.

    Newsom Takes Aim at State’s Top Three Challenges: Healthcare, Housing, Homeless

    In a briefing for Asian Pacific Islander media, the governor also warned the anti-immigrant threat is now expanding to the API community.

    ‘We Need Numbers to Tell Our Story’ – Reversing Census Undercount in Indian Country

    For Native Americans, the ethnic group with the highest undercount of any defined by the Census Bureau, diversity and isolation compound the obstacles to achieving a more accurate count.

    Los Angeles has most to lose in Census undercount, study finds

    Los Angeles has among the lowest projected growth rates for California counties, which could mean decreased federal dollars following the 2020 Census.

    Según un estudio, Los Angeles tiene más que perder en el sub conteo del censo

    Los Angeles, el condado más poblado en la California actual, está perdiendo terreno frente al Área de la Bahía de San Francisco y los condados de San Bernardino y Riverside.

    Fears and Doubts About the 2020 Census? Do It for the Kids

    California, with one out of eight of the nation's children, risks being seriously shortchanged for another decade if its youngest children are undercounted in...
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    Mixtec Families Stake Claim to Oxnard Coast

    What’s surprising is that the city of Oxnard is looking to restore the beach and have the community’s input on what they would like to see for the beach.

    ‘We Want to be Visible’ — Tulare County Aims to Reverse Census Undercount

    Community stakeholders and local reporters came out in force March 15 to discuss Tulare County’s risk of once more being undercounted in the 2020 Census.

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