{"id":12468,"date":"2012-03-01T01:03:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:03:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-01T01:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:03:56","slug":"Among-Asians-Fil-Am-children-least-poor-in-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12468","title":{"rendered":"Among Asians, Fil-Am children least poor in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Among Asian Pacific American (APA) children in New York, Filipinos rank lowest in the poverty level, according to a report released on February 22.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Poverty, according to the report <strong>\u201cWe\u2019re Not Even Allowed to Ask for Help: Debunking the Myth of the Model Minority,\u201d<\/strong> released by the Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF), is one of the factors that are putting Asian Americans at a disadvantage \u2014 along with overcrowding in schools and unequal distribution of resources \u2014 and contributes to the unmaking of the Asian youth as a \u201cmodel minority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Poverty estimates put Filipino children at 3.3 percent, the lowest, while Bangladeshi children rank highest at 42.4 percent. In fact, Filipinos are a step below Japanese children at 4.5 percent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the ranking puts Pakistani children with a poverty estimate of 28.1 percent; all NYC children at 27.8 percent; Chinese children at 23.1 percent; Indian children at 20.9 percent; Korean children at 12.0 percent followed by the Japanese and Filipinos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>APA students make up 14 percent of the city\u2019s public school population<\/strong>, and not all of them are successful or go to Ivy League schools, said Wayne Ho, executive director of CACF. \u201cA large percentage of them are struggling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The \u201cmodel minority\u201d narrative came to prominence in the 1960s during the flowering of the civil rights movement, said Vivian Tseng, a former faculty member in psychology and Asian American studies at California State University, Northridge.<\/strong> While African Americans took to the streets demanding social change, Asian Americans excelled in life as if to say \u201cwe don\u2019t need structural changes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>A half century later, the idea of Asians as a \u201cmodel minority\u201d is now undergoing a reevaluation.<\/strong> The latest study examines how factors like poverty, overcrowding in schools, and unequal distribution of resources put Asian Pacific American students at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/250083\/pinoyabroad\/new-york-report-among-asians-fil-am-children-least-poor-in-us\">Read more on the report here<\/a><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among Asian Pacific American (APA) children in New York, Filipinos rank lowest in the poverty level, according to a 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