By Jacqueline García. Click here to read this article in Spanish. Every morning, Eduardo arrives at a day laborer center in Los Angeles to pick up his crew for the day. Depending on the working schedule, the 52-year-old man takes between two and four men to work in...
by Carolyn Ayon Lee. This article was originally published by Honolulu Civil Beat. Were it not for Hawaii’s Pidgin English, I doubt my Grandma and I, her first grandchild, could’ve understood each other, she knowing very little English, and I, an ignoramus about her...
by Richard Eisenberg. This post originally appeared on Next Avenue. As Next Avenue has noted, there are huge wealth and income disparities between blacks and whites in America (average wealth of white families was more than $500,000 higher than African Americans in...
by Sherrill Wayland. This post originally appeared on the SAGEMatters blog. Each November we recognize National Family Caregivers Month. As the theme for this year makes clear, many of us are aware that caring for a spouse/partner, family member, or friend is often a...
This post originally appeared on the NHCOA blog. Si quieres leer este artículo en español, haz clic aquí. More than 9 million Latinos in the United States are caring for a family member without receiving any kind of compensation. This represents a challenge when they...
Earlier this month, the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging (NAPCA) hosted two community listening sessions in San Francisco, CA and Seattle, WA for invited Congressional representatives, allowing Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) older workers in the...