Asian American Business Face Distinct Challenges Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Businesses across the country are struggling because of the pandemic, but Asian American establishments face particular challenges. In addition to steep drops in revenue and little help from the government , racism and xenophobia are also taking a toll. Now that the pandemic has stretched on for almost a year, some owners are scrambling to survive as consumers spend less at restaurants, nail salons, and dry cleaners. In the Bay Area, a “Save our Chinatowns” campaign is urging people to support Asian-owned businesses. We’ll look at how the pandemic is affecting California’s Asian-American businesses and find out about efforts to support them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.6	Coming up on forum, Asian American-owned small businesses have been especially hard hit by the
0:55.8	economic downturn, and those that are still open are wondering if they can survive this
1:00.7	next virus surge and the lockdowns coming with it.
1:04.2	Asian neighborhoods lost customers before other commercial areas, and vandalism and racist
1:09.3	attacks have taken a toll. Add to that, many have
1:12.6	received little government aid. We look at the ways the pandemic has uniquely affected Asian
1:17.8	American small businesses. Join us. This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim.
1:39.7	Asian American small business owners began seeing drops in revenue and foot traffic
1:43.9	well before the March lockdowns,
1:46.0	as early reports of a virus originating in China prompted people to shun U.S.-China towns, Korea towns,
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