Examples of the Impact of Armenian exclusion on the United States Census:

• Armenian-American small businesses are the backbone of our communities, but owners suffer from a variety of cultural, linguistic, political, and spatial barriers to stability. Still, we're not counted in the data so we are not protected by the Small Business Act.
  

• Armenian-Americans currently do not receive federal, state, and local recourse because they are not classified on the U.S. Census
  

• Armenian-Americans face harsh realities when it comes to our health but because we're not counted in government data, we don't get the equitable support we need and are excluded from health programs that would address these issues. This has direct impact on our lives. For example, for life-saving bone marrow transplants, Armenians must often go to the Republic of Armenia’s bone marrow registry instead of U.S. supported health care options purely because of a lack of data which translates to marginalization in U.S. health resources.
  

• SPD 15 excludes Armenian and all MENA communities, so we do not receive equitable protection of voting rights. For example, Los Angeles was recently split into multiple districts that cut through Armenian communities. Armenian voting protections were not considered.
  

• Armenian-Americans continue to face hate crimes, marginalization and discrimination but are unable to address such realities because of lack of classification, nor are governments and scholars able to demonstrate gaps in equality of opportunity. Lack of data translates to more inequalities and lack of evidence.
  

• Armenian-American and all MENA communities are not given the same opportunities in education as other underserved communities. For example, many states do not collect data on Armenian American and MENA students so there is no way of tracking their progress in the educational system and addressing opportunity gaps. This also impacts the funding of schools serving a large population of Armenian American and MENA students. Armenian-American students nationally overwhelmingly do not receive culturally responsive instruction, trauma-informed instruction and English language acquisition that address their unique linguistic and cultural positioning, experiences and needs, because of the lack of data and lack of research on ways to serve this community within U.S. public schools.  As just one example, the State of California does not track the progress of Armenian or MENA students in the California dashboard so we don't know the graduation, suspension and absentee rates of these students in California schools.
  

• Because of Directive 15, neither the National Endowment for the Arts or the National Endowment for the Humanities included Armenians in their Equity Action Plans, though they were mandated by congress to ensure equal access to the arts and humanities for people of all backgrounds.
  

• Armenian cultural institutions, language programs, schools, and Armenian Studies departments have to largely be self-funded and sustained and do not have access to substantial funding sources other communities do. Turn-over and assimilation over years makes this increasingly difficult. This means every year Armenians become increasingly unconnected to their community and culture because of structural access gaps. Furthermore, Armenian grassroots institutions must constantly spend extensive time and labor on sustainability instead of growth and face systemic barriers to access.