ASIA is pleased to announce a survey opportunity from a doctoral student at George Mason University. This survey examines the experience of Asian Americans with racial discrimination. Please consider sharing your input for this important research project.
If you have questions, please contact the researcher, Jungmi Jun, jjun4@gmu.edu.
ASIA is pleased to share this in-depth report on Ohio’s Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. The report is presented by former Governor Strickland’s Asian American Pacific Islander Advisory Council, including ASIA’s Executive Director, Michael Byun.
The report covers population characteristics, economic and workforce development, health issues and the health care systems, art, culture, and education.
The Alliance for Justice is hosting three free webinars designed for groups working on behalf of immigrant communities. The following webinars are available:
Lobbying 101: You may have heard statements like “nonprofits can’t lobby.” And of course you know that’s wrong. But do you need more information about the subject? Some, but not all, of your activities to influence federal immigration reform and state and local policies will be considered lobbying. It’s important to learn how to distinguish between lobbying and non-lobbying activities. This web training will explain the federal laws governing 501(c)(3) lobbying, including how to calculate your annual lobbying limits, definitions for direct and grassroots lobbying, exceptions to the definition of lobbying, and the application of these rules to ballot measure activities.
May 3 (Tuesday), 11:00 PST/2:00 EST, one hour. Register HERE.
Lobbying 201: Once you understand how the lobbying limits and basic lobbying definitions apply to 501(c)(3) organizations, you will be ready to think about what comes next. How do you track your lobbying time and expenses so that your 501(c)(3) organization is sure it’s staying within its lobbying limit? How does a 501(c)(3) report its lobbying to the IRS? How do the lobbying restrictions on 501(c)(3) organizations interact with state or local lobbying disclosure laws? This web training will answer these questions, as well as provide a more in-depth look at the lobbying definition and ways to take advantage of the membership rule for communications with your members.
May 10 (Tuesday), 11:00 PST/2:00 EST, one hour. Register HERE.
What Can I Do With a 501(c)(4)?: Many 501(c)(3) organizations want to do more than their tax status allows, which is where 501(c)(4)s can come in. But what are the advantages of creating a new organization? This web training will give a legal overview of the various advocacy activities permitted by 501(c)(4) organizations — including lobbying and election-related activities — as well as some tips for staying in compliance with your 501(c)(4) status. We will also discuss the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision on corporate spending on elections in Citizens United v. FEC, and the effect of this case on the nonprofit community — with a focus on the ins and outs of 501(c)(4) election year activity. Now more than ever, nonprofit corporations should actively participate in elections!
May 23 (Monday), 11:00 PST/2:00 EST, one hour. Register HERE.
The following article printed in the Wall Street Journal highlights the population growth of Hispanic and Asian children. The author notes a transformation across the country with this emerging young demographic. Cultural diversity is growing throughout the United States and this young Hispanic and Asian population is expected to shape the political agenda in the years to come.
America’s child population grew more far diverse over the past decade as a decline in the ranks of white children was offset by surging growth of Asians and Hispanics.
All told in 2010, the Census Bureau counted 74.2 million people under age 18, up 1.9 million from 2000.
The number of non-Hispanic whites fell in 46 states and 86 of the 100 largest metropolitan areas. In 10 states, white children are now a minority among their peers, including six that tipped between 2000 and 2010. Others will follow soon: In 23 states, minorities make up more than 40% of the child population.
The number of black and Native American children declined as well, but by a far smaller degree than whites, according to an analysis of 2010 Census data to be released Wednesday by the Brookings Institution, a left-leaning think tank in Washington. The Census Bureau released the first results of its once-a-decade head count of U.S. residents, regardless of citizenship, late last year; over subsequent months, Census released state and local data.
The report reflects a transformation under way in the country’s racial and ethnic makeup.
“It’s a new melting pot in the United States,” said William Frey, a demographer at Brookings who wrote the report. “This is the beginning of how our country will look.”
The data show the extent to which the U.S. has become dependent on minorities—Hispanics in particular—for the next generation of Americans. From 2000 to 2010, almost half of states saw a decline in the number of children.
Without Hispanics, America’s under-18 population would have declined between 2000 and 2010. And in places that did see an increase, Hispanics accounted for most of the growth. In Texas, the state with the largest population gain over the decade, Hispanics accounted for 95% of the growth among the population under age 18.
Most Hispanic children have parents of Mexican origin. The origins of the Asian children are fairly evenly split, with five countries—China, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Korea—accounting for about 80%, according to Jeffrey Passel, senior demographer at the Pew Hispanic Center.
The Asian population is concentrated along the West coast and in metropolitan areas while Latinos live in rural and urban areas across 50 states, according to Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
From 2000 to 2010, Hispanics and Asians were the driving force behind growth in the under-18 population. The number of non-Hispanic white children fell by 4.3 million over the decade. Children in two other longstanding U.S. minority groups, blacks and Native Americans, also saw small decreases. Meantime, the number of Hispanic and Asian children grew by 5.5 million, with 4.8 million of those Hispanic.
Part of the decline in white children is a result of an increase in mixed-race children, who remain a tiny share of the overall population but grew 46%–or roughly 900,000—between 2000 and 2010.
The Census population counts don’t specify how much change came from births compared with immigration.
Shifts in the youth population’s racial makeup suggest the U.S. could become a “majority-minority” nation—where non-Hispanic whites account for less than half of the population—before the 2042 date that the Census Bureau has estimated in the past, according to Mr. Frey. This has already spelled big changes in the nation’s schools, where the black-white divide of the past has become a more complex mix of race, language and religion.
The changing makeup of the U.S. could play a significant role in setting national priorities, especially as Washington grapples with debt obligations that are sparking fights over which entitlement programs to cut and by how much.
“Politically, an age-race divide could create even sharper divisions between candidates and parties that espouse more or less government support for measures benefiting the young, like education or affordable housing, and those benefiting the old, like Social Security or Medicare,” Mr. Frey wrote in the report.
Write to Conor Dougherty at conor.dougherty@wsj.com
Ohio's first-ever AAPI Legislative Day was held in the Main Atrium of the Statehouse in Columbus. More than 350 AAPIs from across Ohio came together to understand their collective power and learn about each other's communities and the importance of political engagement.
See our webpage dedicated to photos, video and stories from this historic day.
