BY JENNIFER LEE, JANELLE WONG, AND KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
On February 3, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Yale University challenging its race-conscious admissions program—marking another reversal under the new Biden administration.
In October 2020, the Justice Department under President Trump accused Yale of discriminating against Asian American and white applicants. The investigation into Yale stemmed …
BY SARA SADHWANI
California’s 39th district incorporates portions of Los Angeles, San Bernardino and Orange Counties and is home to a large and growing Asian American and Pacific Islander community – 33 percent of district residents are AAPI according to the American Community Survey. In 2016, Asian Americans comprised 15 percent of voters who cast a ballot. In …
BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
Election Day is almost upon us, and with it comes enormous attention to exit polls that detail how various demographic groups ended up voting in the presidential race. When it comes to estimates of the Asian American vote, evidence from the 2016 election show that we need to understand the limitations of different exit polls and temper …
BY MAI NGUYEN DO
Although a large share of election-related media coverage has focused on Asian American candidates — like Bobby Bliatout and Sara Gideon, who are running to represent their district or state in the federal House and Senate — there is a record number of Asian American candidates running for state legislature seats across the country this year …
BY MAI NGUYEN DO, SUNNY SHAO & CHRIS PHAN
This blog post is third in a series on the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey
Earlier this month, AAPI Data, APIAVote, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC released the results of our 2020 Asian American Voter Survey (AAVS). The crosstabs are available to view online, disaggregated by ethnicity. 1,569 …
BY JENNIFER LEE and KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN
Note: This blog post is the second in a series based on the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey
After nearly a quarter of a century, a new generation of voters will have the opportunity to vote on restore affirmative action in California. ACA 5 Proposition 16 will be on November’s ballot, giving voters the …
BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN AND JANELLE WONG
Note: This blog post is the first in a series based on the 2020 Asian American Voter Survey
New data from a national survey of 1,569 Asian American registered voters conducted from July 15 to September 10th, 2020 shows that enthusiasm toward the upcoming Presidential election is running high. A majority (54%) of registered …
BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN, MAI DO, AND SUNNY SHAO
On September 14, 2020, AAPI Data and the Center for Social Innovation, in partnership with Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, released a report on the state of philanthropy among Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). This report examines the state of AAPI philanthropy in the context of COVID-19 and movements for racial …
BY KARTHICK RAMAKRISHNAN AND JANELLE WONG
Early polling with Asian American registered voters shows that registered Asian Americans lean heavily towards supporting Democratic candidate Joe Biden in 2020, although about 1 in 6 are still persuadable. Among all those polled from July 4 to August 16th, about half (54 percent) say they are supporting Democratic nominee Joe Biden, about …
BY SUNNY SHAO and MAI NGUYEN DO
As the AAPI Data team noted in a previous blog post last year, Asian Americans and Pacific Islander voters saw increases in voter registration after the 2016 election. These sizable gains in voter registration could potentially make a noticeable impact this November in battleground states like Arizona, where 173,231 AAPIs comprise 4.6 …
