Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
As the Asian American community prepares to begin celebrating Lunar New Year on Sunday, January 22, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), First Vice Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, today reintroduced a package of legislation to commemorate the holiday.
A recent study has found how racial discrimination is able to cause physical disorders in victims via the brain-gut microbiome (BGM) system.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-China fervor stoked consumer discrimination that cost Chinese restaurants $7.4 billion in lost revenue in 2020—losses 18.4 percent greater than at other types of restaurants—according to a new study by researchers from Boston College, the University of Michigan, and Microsoft Research, published today in the journal Nature Human … Read more
“Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, we have experienced a surge in anti-Asian violence that has left us in a constant state of fear, uncertainty, and frustration.”
Come January 22, millions of Americans with roots in China, Vietnam, South Korea and other Asian countries will ring in the Lunar New Year.
Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) households and those with lower incomes have experienced higher inflation over the past few months as a rise in the costs of food and shelter and a fall in gas prices have altered inflation inequality patterns, a New York Federal Reserve analysis showed on Wednesday.