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By Gaylord Garcia For decades, data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have been insufficient and lackluster.  The AAPI community has been left out of deep and rigorous researches that focus on race and ethnicity, according to ColorLines. As a result, there isn’t much broad statistical data available on the AAPI population and when a research is released to the …

By Vanessa Wang There are four ways to enroll in health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare: online, by mail, on the phone, or in person. The problem is, most of these resources are available only in English and Spanish. This makes enrolling difficult for Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders (AAs and NHPIs) …

By Jenny Chen Stan Tsai, a member of the board of directors of the Chinese Culture and Community Service Center (CCACC), has been following the Affordable Care Act closely – and he’s concerned about how much the Asian American community knows about what is going to happen come October 1. “I went to the information meetings [for the Affordable Care …