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Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month - US Census Bureau
May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, and the US Census Bureau has released their Facts for features for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. From the release:
In 1978, a joint congressional resolution established Asian/Pacific American Heritage Week. The first 10 days of May were chosen to coincide with two important milestones in Asian/Pacific American history: the arrival in the United States of the first Japanese immigrants (May 7, 1843) and contributions of Chinese workers to the building of the transcontinental railroad, completed on May 10, 1869. In 1992, Congress expanded the 10-day observance to a monthlong celebration. Per a 1997 Office of Management and Budget directive, the Asian or Pacific islander racial category was separated into two different categories: "Asian" and "Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander."
Some of the facts include:
— 14.0 million - # of U.S. residents in July 2004 who said they were Asian or Asian in combination with one or more other races— 5% - percent of total US population that is Asian or Asian in combination with one or more other races
— 4.8 million - # of people with Asian ancestry in California the largest population of any state
— 58% - percent of people with Asian ancestry in Hawaii, the state with the highest proportion
— 20% - percent of Asians, age 25 and older, who have an advanced degree (e.g., master's, Ph.D., M.D. or J.D.)
— $57,518 - median household income for Asians in 2004, the highest among all race groups
— 2.3 million - # of people age 5 and older who speak Chinese at home
(after Spanish, Chinese is the most widely spoken non-English language in the country)— 282,000 - # of Asian-American military veterans
— 213% - projected percentage increase between 2000 and 2050 in the population of people who identify themselves as Asian
For more, go read the entire release.
— michael | May 2, 2006 10:38 AM | I found it online
