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Ben Ray Luján: The current data infrastructure is not allowing for race and ethnicity to be collected.

On the recordMarch 24, 2021
The current data infrastructure is not allowing for race and ethnicity to be collected.
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Ben Ray Luján
Democratic · New Mexico

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Lujan points out flaws in data collection affecting resource allocation.

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