What We Don’t Know About Economic Inequality in Asian America

Posted by on May 20, 2013

What We Don’t Know About Economic Inequality in Asian America
Wednesday, May 22
12 p.m. PT/ 3 p.m. ET

The Great Recession hit low-income people and families of color the hardest, but what do we know about how Asian American families are faring?

Join us and researchers from the Asian American Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles for this special webinar celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. They will share new national and statewide data on how various Asian ethnicities are faring through the foreclosure crisis, the recession, and slow economic recovery.

The speakers will also discuss the enormous diversity among Asian American ethnic groups, comprising some of the poorest populations in the United States. Finally, the conversation will include how we can work to find a common agenda across cultural and racial lines.

Kilolo Kijakazi, Program Officer at the Ford Foundation, will welcome Paul Ong, Professor of Urban Planning at UCLA, and Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, Assistant Director at UCLA Asian American Studies Center. The speakers will present the latest trends in housing, assets, and poverty at the local, state, and national levels. Lisa Hasegawa, Executive Director of National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development (National CAPACD) will highlight the ways that this important research helps inform policies that promote asset building in Asian American communities and communities of color.

Register for the webinar today, and be sure to fill out the survey questions in the registration form.

https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/registrations/new?cid=acu3zidpamf7

This PolicyLink webinar is part of a series focused on wealth building and the racial wealth gap. The series is in support of the Building Economic Security Over a Lifetime Initiative at the Ford Foundation.