COVID-19’s impact on Asian American workers: Six key insights
As Asian Americans strive for equity in the workplace, the COVID-19 crisis has created additional challenges. Six insights show how the pandemic has affected this group.
Long-term unemployment has risen sharply in U.S. amid the pandemic, especially among Asian Americans
About four-in-ten unemployed workers had been out of work for more than six months in February 2021, about double the share in February 2020.
Covid-19 is taking a devastating toll on Filipino American nurses
Nearly a third of the nurses who've died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.
The Atlanta Shooting and the Dehumanizing of Asian Women
To live through this period as an Asian-American is to feel trapped in an American tragedy while being denied the legitimacy of being an American.
Have You Seen Enough to Finally Start Taking Anti-Asian Racism Seriously?
Call it what it is.
Many Children With Serious Inflammatory Syndrome Had No Covid Symptoms
Pediatricians should be vigilant, experts said, after the release of the largest U.S. study of the syndrome, MIS-C, that can strike young people weeks after their coronavirus infection.
The ‘Chinese Flu’ Is Part of a Long History of Racializing Disease
During a plague outbreak in 1899, officials in Honolulu quarantined and burned the city’s Chinatown. Some Covid-19 talk today echoes their rhetoric.
What the History of Pandemics Can Teach Us About Resilience
Widespread disease outbreaks have the potential to shock societies into new ways of living.