State agencies in New York will now be required to break down data for individual ethnic groups under the Asian American Pacific Islander umbrella. - NBCAsianAmerica
A bill signed last week by Gov. Kathy Hochul mandates that any state department collecting information on ethnicity or ancestry will now have to use different categories for each major Asian group, including the Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Laotian, Cambodian, Bangladeshi and Hmong communities, which the bill names.
This comes after decades of advocacy by civil rights organizations, who say there is a lack of understanding about lower-income, minority Asians whose data is often lumped together with higher-earning groups., who cited lack of funds, Hochul quietly signed the bill into law Dec. 22. “I applaud Gov. Hochul for signing this critical bill which will be instrumental to ensuring that our Asian-American communities across New York State receive the help and support they need," New York State assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou, who sponsored the bill,."Asian Americans are not a monolith. Our communities are the most impoverished but receive the least help, often due to the lack of culturally appropriate services or language access.
“All ethnic groups that fall under the umbrella of ‘Asian American’ get ignored when you lump all of us together,” she said. “Every community is negatively impacted by bad data. Inaccurate or incomplete data basically hides struggle.”Covid-19 brought all these issues to the surface, she said. Lower-income Asian pockets faced an intersection of crises, with their businesses disproportionately shutting down, their multigenerational households ravaged by the virus, and a rise in anti-Asian hate.
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