The Trump Administration has made 400 policy changes detrimental to immigrants through its tenure at the White House, with 63 fresh blows meted out amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Migration Policy Institute in a report released July 31. “Many of the changes reflect the..
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The Trump Administration has made 400 policy changes detrimental to immigrants through its tenure at the White House, with 63 fresh blows meted out amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Migration Policy Institute in a report released July 31. “Many of the changes reflect the..
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SAN FRANCISCO: California’s Census self-response rate is a nationwide leader, but many residents in the state’s wealthy enclaves have yet to respond. 9.7 million households in the state have already responded — more than 64 percent — but more than two million households have not..
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USA: As school districts around the nation grapple with how to educate students this fall, education experts called on tech giants — which earned billions from the pandemic — to chip in to bridge the digital divide. No district or community can wait for leadership or funding from federal or..
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By Manuel Ortiz, East Palo Alto, CA:- Laura Rubio, a 46-year-old single mother who lives in East Palo Alto and works cleaning houses, lost much of her income as a result of COVID 19 and has been unable to pay her rent regularly. Fearing that she and her daughter, a college student, could be..
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All communities, regardless of citizenship status, need to respond to the U.S. Census inspite of President Trump’s July 21 policy memo on reapportionment, civil rights advocates and census experts urged in an ethnic media conference call on July 24. The memo, issued July 21, instructs the..
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By Sunita Sohrabji, SAN FRANCISCO:- A disaster preparedness campaign based in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services – has launched a new program aimed to help the state’s most vulnerable populations to ready themselves for sudden disasters. Responding to the rapidly-increasing..
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By Sunita Sohrabji, SAN FRANCISCO:- An estimated 28 million renters in the U.S. are facing evictions over the next three months, as states begin lifting their COVID-19 related eviction moratoriums. In April, most U.S. states imposed some manner of lockdown to control the spread of the virus,..
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By Sunita Sohrabji, SAN FRANCISCO:- California’s rich diversity of ethnic populations makes an accurate census count extremely challenging, says Karthick Ramakrishnan, founder and director of AAPI Data. “California’s diversity is the source of our strength. There’s a lot that we gain from..
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When Imperial County emerged as California’s number one hot spot in COVID-19 infection rates, it exposed three variables – low wage workers, overcrowded households and inadequate health care – that make some regions a prime target for the corona virus. These same variables also explain why..
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By Anthony Advincula, SAN FRANCISCO, CA:- When Ditas Katague was growing up in Kansas City, Missouri, in the 1960s, only 150,000 Filipinos lived in the United States. About five decades later, when she began leading the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Committee on Race, Ethnicities and..
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By Khalil Abdullah, Indianapolis, IND:- If Willie Sutton were alive, he wouldn’t be robbing banks, more likely he’d be a scam artist, siphoning off a portion of the almost $70 million that Indiana consumers alone have reportedly lost to fraud even before the COVID-19 pandemic opened up a..
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LOS ANGELES: The health committee of the non-resident Nepali Association (NRNA) has prepared guidelines for general people to use while going out to Public Places and while using Public transportation. “The risk of getting infected remains extremely high in the majority of cities around the..
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By Jyoti Dhakal, KATHMANDU:- Speakers at a webinar held on the occasion of the Ninth Annual General Assembly of NRNA America's panelists said that Nepalese living abroad should be socialized in the mainstream, not by giving up their Nepalese identity. Discussions organized by the NRNA ICC's Global..
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TEXAS:- Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali has said that the government was working to safeguard the citizens from the coronavirus infection as well as to rebound economy hit from coronavirus. Saying that the government was continuously working to keep the country safe from the..
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San Mateo County has achieved the highest census self-response rate in California by working with local organizations that know their communities intimately and by targeting messages to them. Those efforts by trusted, countywide, “on-the-ground” messengers were funded by more than $1.3 million..
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SACRAMENTO:- Listos California, a campaign anchored in the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES), has reached one in four Californians with life-saving messaging tied to the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting safer behavior and improving public health across California’s most vulnerable..
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Guest Speaker: Megan Gosh, Census Management Analyst, San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs Melissa Vergara, Census Specialist, San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs Nina Li, Community Outreach Coordinator, San Mateo County Office of Community Affairs Anita M. Rees, Executive...
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LOS ANGELES:- With about 4 in 10 households having yet to respond to the 2020 Census, the U.S. Census Bureau today announced it is on track to conduct multiple follow-up activities aimed at ensuring a complete and accurate count. Census Bureau staff will conduct the following operations over the..
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School lunch programs, which fed nearly half of American’s schoolchildren before the Coronavirus, have turned into a lifeline for families hit by unemployment and rising food prices during the pandemic. Many of those programs are now going broke, and their very existence over the next decade..
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A near-10% drop in the value of the US dollar since its March high has given rise to two distinct narratives. The first takes a short-term perspective, focusing on how a..
