According to a 2018 survey conducted by AAPI Data and APIA Vote, for example, 50 percent of AAPI voters had received no outreach or weren’t sure if they had from the Democratic Party, while 60 percent said the same about the Republican Party. There’s no updated data on this front yet but experts continue to...
GJELTEN: In his speech in Houston, President Trump took care to distinguish between successful Indian immigrants and those coming into the country illegally. But Karthick Ramakrishnan, who directs the Asian American Voters Survey at the University of California, says many Indian Americans still identify with other minority groups, especially at a time of rising white...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy and political science at the University of California at Riverside, directs the National Asian American Survey. He said that Indian Americans have been among the most liberal subset of Asian American voters. “The Democratic Party had a lot more credibility as being seen as the party of anti-discrimination...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor at UC Riverside and founder of AAPI Data, and Janelle Wong, a professor at the University of Maryland and a research fellow at AAPI Data, highlighted a 2019 report from the Census Bureau as a reason to be concerned about a potential Asian American undercount in the 2020 Census. This report...
Asian Americans have the lowest rate of civic participation, just under Latino voters, according to the Pew Research Center. Language and cultural barriers contribute in the lack outreach, causing Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders voters to either be under informed or totally unaware of the political process entirely, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a University of California...
The Globe editorial board opted not to endorse any candidate ahead of the New Hampshire primary, and is calling instead for a rotating cast of more diverse states to vote first... The Globe editorial board is also calling for several states to vote simultaneously on the first primary day, thereby defusing the symbolic power and...
When asked if he thought race was a reason Andrew Yang lasted longer than other candidates and if the #YangGang was diverse, Matt Stevens at New York Times response was that the Yang Gang certainly became diverse, both racially and ideologically. He attracted Trump voters and Bernie Sanders supporters and everyone in between. Research from...
The virtual town hall — which was hosted by nonprofits Asian Pacific Islander American Vote, Asian American Journalists Association, AAPI Data, and the National Council of Asian Pacific Americans — marked the first of its kind to require Democratic candidates to answer to the AAPI constituency. Many social media users noted that the event was...
In a survey, Asian-Americans reported a lower likelihood of filling out their census forms than any other demographic group. They are also the least familiar with the census, on average, and the most worried that their information will be used against them, according to a Census Bureau report. The number of Asian-Americans grew by more...
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts released a plan Thursday that would potentially help low-income and other underserved Asian Americans. Some federal agencies, but not all, currently collect and publish data on Asian Americans as a whole. The Obama administration had issued a guidance that agencies should collect and publish data that are...
The Arizona U.S. Attorney's Office has begun tracking criminal histories of immigrants charged with illegal re-entry into the U.S. and will be made publicly available online every month. The move was made in an attempt to dissuade Arizonans from pursuing sanctuary city legislation by sharing the criminal histories of the immigrants that they are processing...
After tech entrepreneur Andrew Yang ended his Democratic presidential campaign on Tuesday night, many experts said his run was a culturally significant moment for Asian Americans. “Andrew Yang is just the latest casualty of a nominating system that is unrepresentative of the country, and of the Democratic Party,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data, said...
A recent report digs deeper into the experiences and perspectives of California’s AAPI workers. The James Irvine Foundation commissioned AAPI Data and the Public Religion Research Institute to survey AAPI communities in seven languages. The numbers are telling: Nearly four in 10 (38%) AAPI workers in California struggle with poverty. Hmong and Native Hawaiian and...
Sanctuary cities have been a favored target for conservatives and President Trump, describing them as policies that lead to more crime and unsafe communities. In this opinion piece, Tom K. Wong, associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, Director of the U.S. Immigration Policy Center (USIPC) and a former adviser to the White...
California’s democratic primaries saw a boost in early visits from Democratic Presidential hopefuls. Former New York mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, held numerous stops in places such as Fresno and Compton, in an attempt to capture some of the state’s 415 delegates-more electoral power than all four early states combined. This election season, California opted to...
NBC News touches on the importance of AAPI data discussing, According to a 2018 study by AAPI Data, the Asian American vote has nearly doubled within the last decade, from around 2 million voters in 2000 to 5 million voters, or 3.7 percent of the total voting population, in 2016. A report from the Center...
The KCRW published a podcast hosted by Madeleine Brand with guest Karthick Ramakrishnan, political-science professor at UC Riverside and Director of the Center for Social Innovation. They speak on presidential hopeful Andrew Yang addressed his supporters in Iowa on Monday night. LISTEN HERE
The Atlantic highlights Andrew Yang, the 45-year-old entrepreneur and political newbie who is also among the most successful Asian Americans to ever run for president. With the high level of support that Yang is getting from Asian voters, he has quieted the vocal conservative Asian American contingent that had been pulling the community to the...
The event held in San Bernardino hosted representatives from dozens of local organizations involved in the census. Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of public policy and political science at the University of California, Riverside and director of the Inland Empire Census Complete Count Committee. He says the Inland Empire is considered “hard to count”...
Iowa and New Hampshire, two states widely seen as setting the tone for the presidential primary, have one major thing in common: They’re extremely white. Both states' populations are roughly 90 percent white — a stark contrast with both the country, which is 60 percent white, and the Democratic Party’s base, nearly 40 percent of...
