State agencies in New York will now be required to break down data for individual ethnic groups under the Asian American Pacific Islander umbrella.
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 is groundbreaking,” said Anita Gundanna, co-executive director of the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families, a group that’s spent over 10 years pushing for this change. “We started with this need for better data on our communities because so many of our community members have been struggling in silence.
. "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."Gundanna, who works with leaders in underrepresented ethnic groups, says directing resources to those who need them starts with a fundamental understanding of what each community is up against.
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