Non-AAARI News

New Census numbers showing a 43% increase of Asian New Yorkers in Brooklyn and a 29% jump in Queens fuel demands for more representation as the process for redrawing elected officials’ district lines heats up.

Stop AAPI Hate, a national coalition that became the authority on gathering data on racially motivated attacks related to the pandemic, received 9,081 incident reports between March 19, 2020, and this June. Of those, 4,548 occurred last year, and 4,533 this year. Since the coronavirus was first reported in China, people of Asian and Pacific … Read more

On balance, the city added more than 629,000 residents, from 8.175 million measured in 2010, but city planning officials said that a big part of the story was that far fewer residents left the city than had been projected by census officials. Additionally, an unprecedented effort by city officials and community groups to penetrate every … Read more

Overall population growth slowed dramatically over the past decade. The growth that did occur — an increase of about 23 million people — was made up entirely of people who identified themselves as Hispanic, Asian, Black and more than one race, according to the data, the first racial and ethnic breakdown from the 2020 census.

This rise in food insecurity results from a combination of factors. Asian Americans were disproportionately impacted by pandemic job losses. Many worked in restaurants, salons, and other sectors where jobs evaporated during quarantine. In New York City, unemployment among Asian Americans rose to 25 percent in 2020, more than that of any other racial group.

“Most of our seniors had no resources to do that. It has to be the strong work of community-based organizations,” one nonprofit group leader said.