Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
New York City census workers are ramping up visits to hospitals, houses of worship and neighborhoods across the city to get residents counted, CBS2’s Lisa Rozner reports.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, writing, “The harms caused by rushing this year’s census count are irreparable.”
After extending the deadline to count every person in America, a process complicated by the coronavirus pandemic, the Trump administration reversed course. Critics saw a political motive.
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a record rate of job loss for Asian New Yorkers, with unemployment benefit applications increasing by more than 6000% from February to June of 2020.
Many say it’s hard to find accurate and affirming LGBTQ terms in their ancestral languages because existing words are often nonexistent, stereotypical or offensive.
The year 2020 has been a battle for Asian Americans. A battle for their lives in a pandemic. A battle against racial bias and attacks. A battle for respect as essential workers and business owners. Most of all, it has always been a struggle to be seen and heard as Americans.