Last week, a gunman opened fire in a Korean-owned hair salon in the Koreatown section of Dallas, Texas and shot three Korean women who suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The police are now investigating this as a hate crime that may be linked to two other shootings of Asian-owned businesses in the area. Anti-Asian violence and racism...
Riverside, CA - The Inland Empire is a fast-growing region that is teeming with innovation, and much of that innovation centers around the people who were born and raised in the region. Some of our innovators have made a name for themselves in the region, while many others have distinguished themselves in other parts of...
An acronym for Asian American and Pacific Islander, AAPI encompasses a sprawling population, from naturalized immigrants to second-, third- or fourth-generation Americans of Asian or Pacific Islander background. Data compiled by the United States Census Bureau in 2020 revealed that 25.6 million American citizens identify as AAPI, accounting for 8.04% of the country’s population. Read...
Violence against Asian Americans have been on the rise. The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino have found anti-Asian hate crimes increased 339% in 2021 compared to 2020. Similarly, AAPI Data that one in six Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident in 2021...
The survey also found that Americans still largely subscribe to the model minority myth. When asked how they would describe Asian Americans, 39% said they are kind or nice, 36% said they are intelligent or smart, and 23% said they are hardworking. LAAUNCH and TAAF are reportedly working with leading research and data organizations such...
LAAUNCH and TAAF are working closely with leading AAPI scholars and research/data organizations, including AAPI Data and Stop AAPI Hate, to raise awareness about the Index's results and pursue actionable programming that tackles bias against Asian Americans. For example, TAAF's areas of focus include improving public education curricula so that AAPI history is better taught...
In New York, the fight for data disaggregation recently secured a major victory after over a decade of work by CACF and other organizations through their Invisible No More campaign. That campaign helped author and pass AB 6896, which requires that state data for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders be broken down into 14 different...
Orange County now has the largest Asian American and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander population in Florida, according to statistics released by AAPI Data in 2020. The county’s AANHPI population, previously outnumbered only by Broward County, has grown by over 5,000 people, a spurt closely followed in Broward and Hillsborough counties, respectively, with a quarter of all...
Give In May is a giving campaign to support nonprofits across the nation who are dedicated to addressing the needs of the Asian American & Pacific Islander (AAPI) community. Last year, we raised over $725k with an additional $204k in prizes for 170+ participating nonprofits to aid ongoing COVID-19 efforts and to address anti-Asian racism...
Not all in the AAPI community agree that data should be disaggregated. When Massachusetts tried to pass a law to disaggregate data in 2018, the Coalition Against Profiling decried the bill as racist because it only targeted Asian communities. They worried that data collected could be used to discriminate during school or job applications, but...
Issues they’ll tackle include water shortages and rising temperatures, Telesetsky said. The research will be completed by the summer of 2022. California 100 Executive Director Karthick Ramakrishnan said he was excited to have Cal Poly as a partner, as its “contributions will be invaluable to [California 100’s] research stream and to charting a vision and...
The most recent report from Stop AAPI Hate, a coalition that tracks hate incidents and hate crimes against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the U.S., shows that from March 2020 to December 2021, almost 11,000 hate incidents against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders were self-reported to the organization. Nearly 62 percent of those incidents...
In its April 2020 “State of Nonprofits in the Inland Empire” report, the UCR Center for Social Innovation noted that a “strong and vibrant nonprofit sector” can have many positive impacts on the region. This includes the creation of jobs with significantly better pay than other private-sector jobs, increased equity, stronger public-private partnerships, and inclusive...
“As California Goes, So Goes the Nation, Alas.” That was a headline from a Los Angeles Times opinion column from April 1989, which noted that, even though “Californians have long considered their state the cutting edge of social and political change… [it] no longer seems the vanguard of political innovation. Other states rarely look to...
“Prior to this I didn’t feel the whole Asian hate component. It wasn’t affecting me or anybody I know,” Yu said. “Now it’s like, there is a bit of fear and anxiety. What’s going on?” Yu isn’t alone. A survey released last week by the Pat Brown Institute for Public Affairs finds that 1 in...
“Dear YouTube, safety isn't derived from censoring content and information,” the police department tweeted. “It’s the product of a free society that adheres to the rule of law.” Nearly 3 million Asian Americans have experienced a hate incident since the beginning of 2021, suggests a new survey from AAPI Data. That estimate is significantly larger...
“My vision for the FIERCE Scholars Program is to create an initiative that aims to transform the regional education workforce by capitalizing on and retaining Inland Empire talent here in the region. By investing in the development of local community educators, we are making an intergenerational commitment to our communities and are striving to make...
Last year, Governor Newsom signed a historic $47.1 billion higher education package aimed at addressing equity gaps and increasing opportunities for all students in the state. The state has also recently passed legislation addressing disparities in college affordability and accessibility. As California continues to make progress on equity in higher education, data show that these...
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"Even though the Inland Empire “has been majority minority for a long time, political representation has not caught up,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside professor of public policy and founder of the Center for Social Innovation at UCR." Read More Here
"My point is, that's good. Labor tightness is good," says Roy Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, a nonprofit in the Washington, D.C., area that pushes for lower levels of immigration, and the author of a new book called Back Of The Hiring Line: A 200-Year History of Immigration Surges, Employer Bias, and Depression...
