Community organizations across the U.S. mounted an 11th hour scramble to increase self-response rates for the 2020 Census after an Oct. 13 Supreme Court decision cut the count short by two weeks. All people living in the U.S., regardless of immigration status, are required to respond to a simple,..
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Gig economy workers, who now comprise more than one-third of the U.S. labor force, lost an estimated 75 percent of their income in the initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gig economy workers comprise app-based drivers for ride-share and food delivery services, such as Uber, Lyft, Doordash,..
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Consumer fraud is a shape-shifting demon that follows the headlines to target its prey, whether affluent or newly impoverished due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the key message from experts and consumer advocates speaking at a recent Federal Trade Commission Zoom conference for media and..
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Low-income people around the world are grappling with the syndemic of COVID and climate change, simultaneously battling poor health and environmental injustice with few resources. In the U.S., numerous studies note that Blacks and Latinx people are three times as likely as their white counterparts..
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Proposition 16, a measure on the Nov. 3 ballot in California, could end structural racism by allowing affirmative action policies which take race and gender into consideration for public university admissions, government contracts and public employment. Promoters of the initiative say that its..
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All registered voters in California will soon receive a mail-in ballot even if they haven’t asked for one, and there will be plenty of options to register, re-register, vote by mail, vote in person or vote curbside up until Nov. 3rd, said Secretary of State Alex Padilla at a briefing with ethnic..
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Almost half of Vietnamese Americans will vote to re-elect President Donald Trump Nov. 3, while two-thirds of Indian Americans will vote for the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris ticket, reports AAPI Data in new survey results released Sept. 15. Overall, 54 percent of Asian Americans will vote for the..
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US citizens residing outside the country can vote in the November general election, but must request a ballot by Sept. 18. “As we engage in a massive Get Out The Vote effort across the US, let's not forget our relatives and friends who are US citizens living abroad. They, too, can — and must..
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Even as U.S. crime rates drop to historic lows, residents of low-income neighborhoods continue to be over-policed and victimized by law enforcement, concluded panelists at a Sept. 4 briefing. Crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s, but has fallen 51 percent from 1993 to 2018, notwithstanding..
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AB 3088, an emergency bill to stave off evictions for 4.3 million California renters, was passed at the 11th hour Aug. 31 by the state Legislature. But Assemblyman David Chiu, chair of the Housing and Community Development Committee, who headed up the effort to get a bill passed before the..
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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically heightened ongoing food insecurity: 14 million U.S. children will go hungry in any given week, and parents are increasingly skipping meals for several days, in order to feed their children. 5.5 million elderly people are also struggling to find sufficient..
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With a 69-4 vote, the Senate passed Assembly Bill (AB) 323 Tuesday. It proposes granting ethnic media outlets, mid-size publications, and daily newspapers an additional year to pursue alternative and sustainable distribution models that don’t involve contract drivers. That would allow them to..
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By Julian Do, Ethnic Los Angeles:- Residents of Los Angeles County, the nation’s most diverse and populous county, now can help redraw political district lines to ensure that elected officials truly reflect their multicultural communities. Residents can apply to serve on the county’s new 2020..
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By MANUEL ORTIZ ESCAMEZ, REDWOOD CITY, CA:- Isabel Perez and her husband each lost two jobs in San Francisco restaurants due to the COVID19 pandemic. They owe three months of rent and, if the moratorium on evictions ending on Aug. 30 in San Mateo County is not extended, they will be left on the..
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More than 16.6 million people of color who were previously registered to vote have been “de-activated” from polling rosters unbeknownst to them, and will be ineligible to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. 48 million people overall have been de-registered, according to the state by state..
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More than 16.6 million people of color who were previously registered to vote have been “de-activated” from polling rosters unbeknownst to them, and will be ineligible to vote in the Nov. 3 general election. 48 million people overall have been de-registered, according to state by state polling..
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The U.S., which has both the largest number of infections and deaths from COVID-19, is lagging far behind other countries which have far fewer resources, concluded three eminent physicians and global health experts speaking at news briefing for the nation’s ethnic press. Speakers at 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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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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The US recovery is losing momentum. Job growth is slowing, the economy is still down 10.7 million jobs since February, and 36% of unemployed workers are now classified..
