Tamara Marquez didn’t know much about the U.S. census before last year, when she applied for a job as a canvasser with the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, a nonprofit organization based in Jurupa Valley. Marquez, a senior at the University of California, Riverside, is forthcoming about why she wanted the job. Originally...
Riverside, California – With the National Census Day fast approaching, the University of California is asking its students to be counted. UC Riverside student and Center for Social Innovation Student Assistant, Eric Calderon, is well aware that his classmates, their lives suddenly upended by the coronavirus, may not have the U.S. census at the top...
The UCR Counts! Census 2020 Complete Count Committee is a team of campus leaders who are joining together to ensure that UCR and its communities are accurately accounted for during this year’s census. The committee consists of students and faculty from ASUCR, the Center for Social Innovation, the Office of Government & Community Relations, the...
“It’s no exaggeration to say that (the Inland Empire and Central Valley) could determine the winner of the California primaries,” Karthick Ramakrishnan, a UC Riverside political science and public policy professor, wrote in a commentary posted on CNN.com. Billionaire and former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg visited Riverside on Sunday, Jan. 5, to open...
Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of AAPI Data and professor of public policy at the University of California, Riverside, told India-West: “Biden has one well among establishment donors. The Indian American community has high regard for him and (Vermont Senator) Bernie Sanders, who represent opposite wings of the Democratic party.” Ramakrishnan noted that both Sanders and Biden...
Some argue that this political progress started with the Obama years. The rise of the Asian American grassroots progressive movement began before the 2010s but shaped much of the organizing during the decade, says Karthick Ramakrishnan, director of AAPI Data, which collects and publishes demographic data on the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. Ramakrishnan...
In 2010, during the last decennial population count, nearly one in four Inland Empire households didn’t mail back their census questionnaire. What’s more, another 40,000 people throughout the region didn’t receive a questionnaire by mail at all. Why does this matter? Because undercounted regions miss out on vital federal and state funding, hindering potential growth...
