Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
A new report is complicating an unusual finding from the U.S. Census Bureau’s own report card on the accuracy of its 2020 head count of the country’s population: a national overcount of Asian Americans.
As of 2020, the most recent year for which federal government data is available, 171,400 businesses were owned by Asian American women and 2,600 by Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women. Yet the number of AAPI business owners is estimated to have decreased by more than a quarter since the start of the pandemic.
Sparse economic data on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women has painted an inaccurate reality of economic well-being and hampered communities’ efforts to address disparities. It’s an issue that Wednesday’s AAPI Women’s Equal Pay Day—April 5, 2023—attempts to spotlight.
Other states like California, New York, Hawaii, Florida, Arizona and Virginia have also designated January 30 as “Fred Korematsu Day.” In January, the New Jersey governor signed a bill officially designating the day as a remembrance of Korematsu.
The fellowship is designed to enhance Black, race and ethnic studies scholarship and teaching at CUNY and is part of a $3 million, Mellon Foundation-funded initiative.
CUNY SPH doctoral student Thinh Vu was awarded the Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) fellowship for the second consecutive year. Vu will receive $14,400 to conduct research on mental health symptomatology among cancer inpatients and their family caregivers at the largest oncological hospital in Vietnam.