“We know that Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Asian Pacific Islander communities are often aggregated into one, and that couldn’t be further from the truth,” said White House deputy cabinet secretary Daniel Koh.
of COVID-19 – when they were measured. According to a 2021 Kaiser Family Foundation analysis, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander children trailed only American Indian and Alaska Native kids in terms of infection.
“If you don’t disaggregate, many disparities are masked,” said Julie Su, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Labor. For example, she said, once the department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics began examining Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders more precisely, it found disproportionately high jobless rates.
U.S. associate attorney general Vanita Gupta noted the department’s continuing pursuit of anti-Asian hate crime charges, including a manto 25 years in federal prison for attacking an Asian family he wrongly assumed to be Chinese, a nationality he blamed for the pandemic, at a Sam’s Club in Midland, Texas.
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