U.S. census form (Courtesy photo)

With the country’s decennial effort to count every single person living in the United States set to kick off in earnest this week, one of its fastest growing racial groups — Asian Americans — is at risk of going largely overlooked.

Invitations to fill out the U.S. census questionnaire are scheduled to land in the mailboxes of roughly 143 million U.S. households on Thursday.

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Kiley Russell writes primarily for Local News Matters on issues related to equity and the environment. A Bay Area native, he has lived most of his life in Oakland. He studied journalism at San Francisco State University, worked for the Associated Press and the former Contra Costa Times, among other outlets. He has covered everything from state legislatures, local governments, federal and state courts, crime, growth and development, political campaigns of various stripes, wildfires and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.