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Asian Americans Experiencing Job Discrimination

A panel at a Workers Rights hearing called by the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) told D.C. unionists on May 21 that Asian Americans are reporting varied forms of job discrimination, with complicating factors - cultural and economic - that make it extra hard for them to win rights, wages and benefits. Job discrimination against Asian Americans is important: They're the fastest-growing minority group in the U.S., and now number 15 million nationwide. Their share of the U.S. workforce doubled in the last decade. And the 2010 census showed double-digit percentage increases in the Asian American population in many states, including Maryland (up 51 percent) and Virginia (more than 70 percent). Click here to read more.
 
 



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