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...
Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest-growing racial groups in the country, and the 2020 census is expected to reflect continued rapid population gains among these populations. Yet at the same time, the U.S. Census Bureau’s research has shown Asian Americans are the racial group least familiar with the census, as well as those...
When it comes to Democratic presidential candidates, analysis on third quarter filings with the Federal Election Commission shows that the entrepreneur Andrew Yang is the top recipient of Asian American donations. However Christine Chen, executive director of APIAVote, a nonpartisan civic engagement nonprofit, previously told NBC News that the donor population may not be perfectly...
Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg held campaign events in Los Angeles over the weekend, including a breakfast meeting with members of various Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities. In a roughly 40-minute appearance, the former New York mayor visited Paris Baguette in Koreatown on Saturday, January 18, where he addressed attendees and shared his...
Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden picked up an endorsement on Friday from a super PAC focused on mobilizing Asian American and Pacific Islander voters. “We believe that Joe Biden is the best candidate to defeat Trump and lead our country,” Shekar Narasimhan, chairman of the AAPI Victory Fund, said in a statement. “Out of all...
The way that candidates handle their performances at Tuesday’s date could further illustrate their ability to address a wide-ranging Democratic electorate — or highlight the limitations they still have in doing so. “You’re not losing white voters by having a diverse debate stage, you might lose minority voters by not having a diverse debate stage,”...
“It’s no exaggeration to say that (the Inland Empire and Central Valley) could determine the winner of the California primaries,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science and public policy professor, wrote in a commentary posted on CNN.com. Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg visited Riverside on Sunday, Jan. 5, to open...
Research by CSI Researcher Stephanie DeMora and Karthick Ramakrishnan on Asian American campaign contributions featured in NBC News article. Read more here
Karthick Ramakrishnan quoted in this decade-in-review article, offers perspectives on the growth in Asian American community activism during the 2010s, and prospects for the future. Read more here
Front-page article in the Press-Enterprise, Sun, and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin featuring our State of Civic Engagement report and perspectives from our community partners. Read more here
New York Times article quoting Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan and featuring data and insights from AAPI Data, which publishes demographic data and policy research about Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Read more here
Vox article by Li Zhou with commentary by Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan on presidential candidate Andrew Yang being the only person of color on the stage at the November 19, 2019 presidential debate. Read more here
CNN op-ed by Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan, discussing the reasons why presidential candidates should spend a lot more time and effort in the Central Valley and Inland Empire. Read more here
