Countries across the Americas are tweaking their census to better understand their population, allowing them to create more responsive policies. The US still has a ways to go.

* Identified languages spoken at home are based on self-reports. Names used are as reported by IPUMS and may not necessarily reflect recognized language names. Source: Pew Research Center analysis of ...

ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. — Roughly 11% of Erie County residents speak a language other than English at home. That means 772,888 people, or 89% of the local population, speak only English at home, according ...

Over 91% of usual residents aged three years and over (52.6 million out of 57.7 million) had English or Welsh as a main ...

Language forms the backbone of communal existence. It doesn't take long to discover this if you've ever traveled to a place where you don't speak the language. "Where is the nearest bathroom?", "How ...

While we’re currently drowning in messaging apps, email is still the universal means of communication. You don’t need a proprietary app to send an email. What you do need is support of languages and ...

Honor, integrity, courage – however you say it. As a way of recognizing the diverse population they serve, the Scranton Police Department began putting decals of the agency’s three-word motto onto ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Hawaiʻi is a beautiful, diverse place with people from all over the world. We speak many languages, and this diversity reflects the cultural richness of the state. Officially, ...

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...