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Democrats and Republicans disagree on a lot of issues. But there’s a growing consenus in both parites that China represents a threat to the U.S. And some worry that the rise in anti-China rhetoric could pave the way for xenophobia against Asian-Americans.

The change is effective on the last day of the Spring semester, which for most colleges is May 23, and will allow students to enroll in classes, regardless of their vaccination status, starting with Summer sessions. 

When the cult classic premiered 20 years ago, it showed that Asian Americans can be whomever they want to be.

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.