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Mom and pop businesses got no help from gov’t: lawmakers
By Sunita Sohrabji The mom and pop small businesses of Main Street America largely did not receive funding from the $2.6 trillion CARES Act, conceded Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., at a press briefing. CARES Act stands for the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Khanna and California state Assemblymember David Chiu led an April […]
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Grace Alignay: Helping marginalized women find jobs in the fashion industry
By Cristina DC Pastor It took a lot of twists and turns before Grace Alignay finally found her bliss. She studied Pre-Med and was sickened by the sight of blood. In her indecision, she joined the U.S. Army where she acquired technical skills but no college degree. After military service, she moved to New York […]
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Dr. Dely Po Go: Portrait of a Filipina as an American nurse
By Cristina DC Pastor There was a time Filipino nurses in the U.S. were seen as hospital workers in their starch whites scurrying at the beck and call of doctors and providing their patients an affectionate kind of care. They still are — in their dainty scrubs — but they’re no longer the one-dimensional caregivers […]
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FilStop closes online and Clifton stores; is Jersey City next?
By Cristina DC Pastor An established Filipino grocery store is closing down after 12 years in business. FilStop has announced it is closing its Clifton, N.J. location which opened only five months ago. Before that, it shut down its e-commerce site Filstop.com. Plans to continue operating its original store on Newark Avenue, Jersey City remain […]
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NYC company finalizes acquisition of Sheila Marcelo’s Care.com
IAC and Care.com, the world’s largest online marketplace for finding and managing family care, announced on December 20 that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement pursuant to which IAC will acquire Care.com for $15.00 per share in an all-cash transaction representing approximately $500 million of enterprise value. With more than 1.5 million […]
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FilAm neighborhood in Jersey City facing threat of gentrification
By Cristina DC Pastor A proposed 800-unit luxury condominium to be built on thePhilippine Plaza Park in Jersey City is making some FilAm families very anxious about the prospect of gentrification. The planned development has stoked fears it would encroach on the park’s memorial dedicated to Filipino veterans and drive residents out of their homes. […]
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On Global Filipinos: Architect Emmanuel Canlas: A towering success in KL
By Loida Nicolas Lewis I was in Kuala Lumpur in December for the Asia Pacific Leaders program hosted by the Obama Foundation to train some 200 young, “emerging leaders” from 33 countries in the region. While in Malaysia, I met one of very few prominent Filipinos in the country: Architect Emmanuel Canlas. He was introduced […]
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Top frozen food producer vows commitment to clean energy
By Theo Capulong Ramar Foods, a leading Filipino food company in America, has reached its milestone 50th-year anniversary in 2019. As the company moves into its sixth decade, the third-generation owners are energized about maintaining their signature flavors while powering it all with the latest fuel cells from Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE). In a partnership […]
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The Juliette story and how its founder became a Tory Burch fellow
By Rechelle Balanzat My story starts back in 2013 when I had the idea of developing an app that would take care of laundry and dry cleaning. It took just over a year of developing different prototypes, creating business models, and drafting business plans It wasn’t until September 2014 that I had a working […]