The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) announced a seven-figure investment in digital, print and radio advertising to engage with AAPI voters. Recent research conducted by AAPI Data, Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC) and APIA Vote found that 52% of registered AAPI voters surveyed reported not being contacted at all by the Democratic Party. Around 60%...
AAPI voters are worried about inflation, the economy, voting rights and immigration, the survey found. But interestingly, health care tops the list of their concerns. “That’s fascinating. We don’t typically think of this as a health care election,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data. But he said, lingering pandemic and other Covid-related economic disruptions...
While Asian Americans comprise a multitude of ethnicities and languages, this survey shows that on many issues, they have many areas of common concern and interest, where they tend to vote as a bloc. This includes everything from the economy to healthcare, the environment to the need for stricter gun laws.” “Asian Americans are among...
The latest bi-annual survey of Asian American voters tracks the group's continued enthusiasm in civic engagement. "This builds on record levels of turnout that we saw among Asian American voters in 2018 and in 2020," said AAPI Data founder and director, Karthick Ramakrishnan. The 2022 Asian American Voter Survey by APIAVote, AAPI Data, and Asian...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder of AAPI Data, said Asian Americans have been left out of lobbying on other important matters like environmental justice or gun control, despite supporting policies like stricter gun laws. “Asian Americans are not single issue voters — they’re not just civil rights voters, they’re not just immigration voters,” Ramakrishnan said. APIA Vote...
Fatima and Arthur Nelson II had their own reservations before they moved with their three children in early 2021 from Long Beach to Moreno Valley, a city of about 215,000 where residents ride horses on the streets and hillside trails. But their new city’s racial diversity — which was missing in their old neighborhood —...
Of the 13% of Asian American Californians who reported having mental health issues last year, only 46% of them said they received the care they needed. 54% of AAs said they experienced financial stress resulting from being the caregiver for their family, and 11% suffered physical or mental health problems as a caregiver. AAPI Data...
In the first three months of 2022, more than one in 12 Asian Americans experienced a hate crime or incident of hate, according to a survey from AAPI Data, a nationally recognized organization publishing demographic data and policy research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. AAPI Data noted an increasing trend of hate against Asian...
Stop AAPI Hate found verbal harassment was the most common, making up 63% of the incidents reported to the coalition. Physical assault was the second most reported incident at 16.2%, followed by deliberate avoidance of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders at 16.1%. The coalition also found that hate incidents reported by women made up 61.8%...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, executive director for California 100, a joint project of UC-Berkeley and Stanford University, said the project hopes to “engage Californians in possible scenarios with a 10-year, 30-year, and 100-year timeframe. This toolkit, our research, and our innovation and engagement work, will inform our engagement activities including work with stakeholders, government agencies, community groups...
In 2021, 1 in 6 Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident. Women and seniors have been among the most common targets. Women make up 61.8% of all reports. Although, according to a recent survey by AAPI Data, men are as likely to experience a hate incident, but are less likely to...
In 2021, 1 in 6 Asian American adults experienced a hate crime or hate incident. Women and seniors have been among the most common targets. Women make up 61.8% of all reports. Although, according to a recent survey by AAPI Data, men are as likely to experience a hate incident, but are less likely to...
Karthick Ramakrishnan is a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also the executive director for California 100. “Our toolkit comes at the end of 13 reports that we have produced in collaboration with research centers throughout California,” he told Capitol Weekly. “Henry E. Brady, who is the former dean...
The Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism reported a 339% increase in hate crimes targeting Asian Americans in 2021 compared with 2020, prompting organizations like Right to Be and AAJC to hold bystander intervention trainings for members of the Asian American community and allies. Asian Americans are among the least likely of minority...
Connecting members of the AAPI community and allies to share challenges, listen, encourage and support each other. AAPI Data’s 2022 American Experiences with Discrimination Survey showed that 1 in 6 Asian American adults surveyed said they had experienced a hate crime or hate incident in 2021 or the first three months of 2022. During times...
"What we are seeing is a pendulum that is swinging back to state power over fundamental rights," said S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, a professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside. "This is the result of decades of investment by movement conservatives" Read More Here
By Jonathan Weisman and Jazmine Ulloa, New York Times |
Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders (AANHPIs) are among the fastest growing racial groups in California and nationwide. In response to a wave of attacks on AANHPIs, California passed the API Equity Budget in 2021 that included a three-year investment of over $166 million to better serve communities experiencing hate and barriers to various...
As the social and political environment has increasingly polarized in the United States in recent years, Asian Americans are being greatly affected by anti-Asian hate crimes. Stop AAPI Hate had 10,905 hate incidents reported from March 2020 to December 2021 and it’s likely many more went unreported. Furthermore, 1 in 6 Asian American adults experienced...
On the 40th anniversary of Chin’s death, his story continues to inspire and move the Asian American community to solidarity and action. In today’s political landscape, which is increasingly racist, sexist, violent, and exacerbated by COVID-19-inspired anti-Asian American sentiment, it is not enough to know about this one case of injustice but to harness that...
StopAAPIHate has collected reports from nearly 11,000 Asian Americans about hate crimes or hate incidents since the start of the pandemic to December 2021. Another study by AAPI Data and Momentive indicates that those self-reported numbers are likely an undercount, and that closer to 12.5% of Asian Americans experienced a hate incident or hate crime...
