Monthly Archives: July 2020

COVID-19’s Disproportional Impact on Asian American Employment

Posted on July 29, 2020 by Jeff

A recent report published by UCLA finds that Asian Americans workers have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19.   As shown above in the graph above, Asian American unemployment rates and jobless rates were at one point lower than that of whites, … Continue reading →

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Why there are so Many Filipino Nurses in the US: A Video Explanation

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Jeff

We talked about how Filipino American nurses have been hard hit by the Coronavirus, which makes sense since they are a significant proportion of the US nursing workforce compared to their proportion of the general US population.  How did that … Continue reading →

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Grant Imahara, Engineer and Host of Mythbusters, Dead at 49

Posted on July 14, 2020 by Jeff

Grant Masaru Imahara, host of Mythbusters, died on July 13, 2020 of a brain aneurysm.  One thing I loved about him  was that not only was he a handsome and affable TV host, he was a working engineer and an … Continue reading →

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Fastest Growing Foreign Language in the US is an Indian Language You Might not Expect

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Jeff

The fastest growing Foreign Language in the US as of 2018, according to this study by the Center for Immigration, is Telegu.  I was surprised, thinking it would be Chinese or Tagalog, but numbers of speakers does not equate with … Continue reading →

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Asian American Commercial Watch: The Fighting Spirit of Anderson Paak

Posted on July 6, 2020 by Jeff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhzkIblnuc4 I first heard of  Anderson .Paak from Number One Son and Number Two Son, but I didn’t bother to find anything about him until I saw him featured in this commercial for Modelo beer.  “Fighting Spirit” is definitely an … Continue reading →

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