Poll: Ethnic Voters Support Obamacare

While more people in California than anywhere else in the country support the nation’s new health care reform law, that’s largely the result of an overwhelming endorsement from ethnic minorities, according to results released today by the non-partisan The Field Poll.

In March, after months and months of wrangling on Capitol Hill, President Obama signed the landmark Health Care Act of 2010 that expands subsidized health care to millions of uninsured Americans and requires all legal residents to have health insurance or pay a fine. A number of state attorneys general -- all Republicans -- are challenging the law, saying the mandate is unconstitutional.

Many of those polled say Obama’s health care bill should only be a first step with more changes needed. This view is strongest among Latinos, blacks, Korean Americans and Chinese Americans.

Statewide, 52 percent of California voters generally support the new law and 30 percent strongly support it. While non-Hispanics whites in the state are evenly split about the new law, majorities of voters across five of the state’s other major ethnic populations are in favor of it.

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For Ethnic Communities, a Year of Stimulus Not Enough

By New America Media, Commentary, Aaron Glantz, Posted: Feb 20, 2010


It’s been a year since President Barack Obama signed the $787 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, better known as the stimulus package. The largest public investment in America’s infrastructure since the Great Depression, Obama called it “the most sweeping economic recovery bill in our history.”

But a year later, many Americans are still hurting. And while the Labor Department reports the unemployment rate for whites has begun to fall (to 8.4 percent in January), it continues to rise for ethnic minorities. For African Americans, it is 16.5 percent and for Latinos unemployment is 12.6 percent.

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Ethnic Communities Urged to Get H1N1 Flu Shot

Editor's Note: Odette Keeley, news anchor for "Stories From The Ethnic Media" on NAM's radio program, "New America Now" on 91.7 FM KALW, talks to ethnic media professionals about their outlets' news headlines and their take on the news of the day.

This Week on "Stories From the Ethnic Media": CDC meets with ethnic media to discuss the H1N1 vaccine, and the recent videotaped MUNI bus fight between two women, one African-American, the other Chinese-American, brings community leaders and media in San Francisco together to discuss race relations.


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H1N1 Influenza Virus Image courtesy of CDC 

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Economic Disparities for Minorities Sharpen in Recession

By New America Media, News Report, Cristina Fernandez-Pereda, Posted: Sep 25, 2009 

Minorities are taking the hardest hit of the economic downturn. Policy advocates from different minority organizations participated Wednesday in a Congressional hearing and a teleconference to share the impact of the recession on different communities. 


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