The Midwest's Asian-American community is growing fast. Advocates worry the census won't count them.

For Asian Americans in the Midwest, the census is a new — and difficult — challenge

Volunteer teacher Alicia Soppe, from right, goes over the Louisiana Purchase during a Burmese civic class made possible by U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants office at First United Methodist Church, in Waterloo, Iowa on Jan. 29, 2014.The Midwest has seen some of the fastest rates of Asian-American growth in the last decade, owing in part to refugee resettlement.

With less than a year to go, community organizers in states like Iowa and Nebraska have their work cut out for them. They need to pitch the importance of a decennial count to Asian Americans, including new immigrants and refugees, amid government mistrust among some groups and a proposedFor some organizations in the Midwest, this census outreach work is new and just getting underway, if it has started at all.

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