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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 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 categories: Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander. Thus, this Facts for Features contains a section for each.
Some of the facts include:
— 14.9 million - # (estimated) of US residents in July 2006 who said they were Asian alone or Asian in combination with one or more other races
— ~5% - percent of total US population this represents
— 5 million - Asian population in California
— $64,238 - median household income for single-race Asians in 2006
— 1 million - # (estimated) of US residents in July 2006 who said they are Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander, either alone or in combination with one or more other races
— ~0.3% percent of total US population this represents
— $49,361 - median income of households headed by single-race Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
For more, go read the entire release: Facts for features for Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month.
— michael | May 1, 2008 02:33 PM | I found it online
