The National Coalition for APA Community Development published these facts about growing poverty in our API communities: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders are among the fastest growing poverty population today in the US – increasing at a rate of 37% for Asian Americans and an alarming 60% for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
Apace Votes Mobilizes the Vietnamese American Voters in 2014
With funding from APIA Votes, Apace contacted 17,682 Vietnamese voters in Washington state in October and November 2014. We sent each voter two bi-lingual mailers; and organized 5 bi-lingual phone banks encouraging VN voters to vote. We made a total of 42,000 contacts! We have much more work to do in 2015!
Apace Votes Honors Dr. Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King lead the hard fought battle for the right to vote for people of color. Apace Votes honors the lives that were lost and lives that stood up to speak truth to power. The battle is not over, indeed the Federal Voting Rights Act was seriously weakened in the last few years and […]
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