The year is 2029 and you are the 27th Director of the US Census Bureau. The next Census is in 2030 and you need to make a crucial decision regarding the adage of a new racial* category on the census: Middle Eastern and North African (MENA). Will you decide to add this category or not?

You've been busy with so many other tasks so your administrative assistants and researchers have prepared you summaries and analyses of the key issues**. Navigate the rest of the website to gain some much-needed perspective.

If you are little rusty on your Census Bureau bureaucracy, click here to learn more about what the census is, who the Director is, and how these categories are employed.

Start here for an overview of the issue at hand. After that, or, if you are ready to delve right in, click on any of the groups below to learn more about their perspective.