Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Asian American small businesses made up 20 percent of New York City’s businesses before the pandemic and were the fastest-growing segment of small businesses in our city. However, they were devastated by the Covid crisis, with over half the owners reporting losses of 75 percent or more in revenue in 2020. Yet, very few of … Read more
There is a lag between changes in the population and political representation, but this year’s races could close that gap.
The coronavirus has taken a devastating toll on Filipino nurses battling COVID-19 in the U.S. According to National Nurses United, as of April 2021, 24 percent of the nurses they surveyed who died from COVID-19 complications were Filipino; but, Filipinos only make up 4 percent of the total registered nurses in the country.
Graduate Center Professor Jin Meng (Earth and Environmental Sciences) was part of a team that recently discovered two new species of small, mammal-like creatures from 120 million years ago. The fossils came from northeastern China.
When Jinhee Kim’s daughter looked in her history book, she didn’t see anyone who looked like herself — and she had questions for her mother about why that was so.
Being a “model” is not always good, especially when it doesn’t bring you a turn on the catwalk or “Sexiest Man or Woman Alive” titles. Like a gigantic vacuum cleaner that sucks, the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic has ripped the covers off of many longstanding problems in society. One of these problems has been the “Model … Read more