On Nov. 3, Soon Woo Kwon stayed up late watching the news, eager to find out the results of the first American election he voted in. Kwon, who has been living in Georgia for 13 years, immigrated to the United States from South Korea in 2007, and when he finally became a naturalized citizen this...
There's an important, new electorate up for grabs. But the candidates need to do a better job catering to these voters The AAPI community makes up just 3-4.5 percent of the population in Georgia, depending on which data you use, but it’s one of the fastest-growingdemographic groups in the state (and the fastest-growing group in...
The community coalitions that increases underrepresented communities' voices in Census 2020 plan to expand their influence in government planning This week, more than 200 leaders from across the United States helped launch Census Legacies, a new community-building effort by the Center for Social Innovation at UC Riverside with partners in philanthropy, government, and community. The...
California’s 39 th district incorporates portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange Counties and is home to a large and growing Asian American and Pacific Islander community – 33 percent of district residents are AAPI according to the American Community Survey. In 2016, Asian Americans comprised 15 percent of voters who cast a ballot...
More than 400 leaders in business, public policy, housing and education joined us online yesterday for the 11th Annual Southern California Economic Summit. This year’s program took a serious look at the strategies needed for building back a strong, inclusive Southern California economy and featured forecasts from the region’s top economists. The panel session –...
Amazon represents the pinnacle challenge to union organizers and socialists throughout the country. Are we in a 1919 moment, still a generation of failures away from breakthrough success? Or closer to 1935, approaching the tipping point of winning real worker power? It seems eons ago, the youth-led climate strike of September 20, 2019 that brought...
A new book by CSULB professor Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and UC Riverside professor Ellen Reese attempts to put the unprecedented wonders – and challenges – of the Amazon economy into critical focus. In "The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy," the authors examine the residual, often negative effects that rapid, exponential growth has...
Eligible Asian American voters in Texas are more politically organized than ever before and are poised to make an impact this election. Rapid growth in this population, policies of the current government and the 2020 Census may have contributed to the group’s active participation in this election cycle and possibly continued political dialog after Nov...
In Gwinnett County outside Atlanta, which has the state’s largest AAPI population, more than 30,000 AAPI voters cast their ballots early this year compared with 9,500 in 2016. Of those who voted early this year, 43 percent had not voted in 2012, 2016 or 2018, according to Cho’s group. That affected more than just the...
The IE Black Equity Fund is launching an online giving campaign Friday, Nov. 27, that will run until Tuesday, Dec. 1, which is Giving Tuesday. Money raised will benefit more than 40 organizations that are addressing inequities in the Inland Empire. These organizations focus on issues including higher education, youth empowerment, criminal justice reform and...
Less than a week after Election Day, a spreadsheet titled “Battling Asian American Misinformation” began circulating in progressive Asian American social media circles, primarily among those of Vietnamese and Chinese descent. The most popular YouTube channels flagged on the spreadsheet accumulated hundreds of thousands of subscribers, in which pundits discussed misleading claims about election fraud...
The Asian-American population in the state has doubled in two decades, and many live in the Atlanta suburbs, which voted for Joseph R. Biden Jr. by large margins. The emergence in Georgia of Asian-American voters is a potential bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on demographic changes to bring political wins across the country...
The economic impact of the pandemic on Asian Americans is unusual because historically their unemployment rates have been very low—even lower than those of white Americans. In December 2019, when the overall unemployment rate was 3.5%, Asian American unemployment hovered at just 2.5%. “It’s especially notable because among Asian Americans, the average unemployment rate was...
In Nevada, where the AAPI community is the fastest-growing population in the state, AAPI voters make up about an 11 percent share of the electorate and represent an estimated 209,384 eligible voters. AAPI voters in the Silver State increased their turnout compared to 2016 more than any other racial demographic. The term AAPI covers a...
By Tabitha Mueller and Savannah Strott, The Nevada Independent |
In other words, a majority of people were motivated to vote for Democratic candidate Joe Biden, not because they support his specific promises and policies, but because they were more inclined to get Trump out of office, according to Karthick Ramakrishnan, public policy and political science professor at UC Riverside and founder of the research...
Asian-American voters, who tend to lean toward the Democratic Party, have made up an increasing share of Georgia’s electorate. Over a six year period starting in 2012, AAPI Data reported a 47% growth of eligible AAPI voters in the state of Georgia. The 2010 census showed ethnic Chinese as the third-largest group in the category...
With a South Asian American at the top of the Democratic Party ticket this election cycle, two party conventions where the issue of South Asian American identity was front and center, both a South and East Asian American featuring prominently in the crowded Democratic primary field and several dozen Asian Americans vying for spots in...
Santa Clara’s two-year journey to a City Council that mirrors the City’s multi-ethnic population is historic and follows Santa Clara’s change to single-member City Council districts, after the City lost a California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). It’s a safe bet that the historic change will be part of future studies of the impact of the...
Santa Clara’s experience in its first by-district election is typical, although the number of minority representatives in Santa Clara isn’t, according to Loren Collingwood, UC Riverside Associate Professor of Political Science. Collingwood is the co-author of the first statistical study specifically of CVRA impacts, “ Can States Promote Minority Representation? Assessing The Effects Of The...
It is Thursday, Nov. 19, and this is The Sacramento Bee’s AAPI weekly newsletter. Here’s a recap of the stories I’ve covered and ones I’m following: Sacramento County health chief Dr. Peter Beilenson used the term “yellow folks,” considered a racial slur, to refer to Asians during a Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday declaring racism...
