While AANHPI mothers with a college degree experienced a tiny increase in employment, AANHPI mothers w/o a college degree faced the sharpest decline in labor force participation. This is why it is important to disaggregate AAPI data!

In the first half of this year, the share of mothers with children under five who are working or looking for work saw its steepest drop in over forty years. This was most drastic for Black mothers; AANHPI mothers saw a steep decline as well.

We demand policies that disaggregate the data, enforce equal pay, and strengthen worker protections. #DisaggregateAAPIData

NHPI women working full-time, year-round are paid just 65¢ for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men, and all earners (full-time, year-round plus part-time and seasonal) earn only 61¢. For some communities data is not available due to lack of investment in adequate survey sample sizes.

Research shows this bill will directly cause 51,000 preventable deaths each year.

Our lives are not line items. Our health is not up for negotiation. Our communities are not disposable. AAPI women and gender expansive people have always fought for our communities, and we will continue to do so.

The bill defunds Planned Parenthood, potentially shutting down one in four abortion providers nationwide and exacerbating barriers to reproductive care.

This bill fuels $150 billion in deportation efforts while slashing Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). One in five AAPI women of reproductive age rely on Medicaid, and over one million rely on SNAP.

The Budget Reconciliation Bill/The “Big Beautiful Bill” was signed into law last week. This inhumane legislation is the largest wealth transfer from working people to the ultra-wealthy in U.S. history, threatening the safety and survival of AAPI women and gender-expansive people nationwide.

It will mean longer delays, longer travel, or no care at all. This is yet another blow to reproductive health care access, and another example of how our communities are being systematically excluded from the basic right to make decisions about our bodies, our health, and our futures.