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April 22, 2023 0

$800,000 Settlement Reached for Workers in Case Against C-Mart

Restitution, fair play, mediation, and equity are always the endgame goals for any management/labor conflict. In the case of several C-Mart supermarkets in Quincy and Boston’s South End and Chinatown neighborhoods, a settlement of $800,000 in restitution and penalties has been reached for employees of these supermarkets as a result of 15 citations and an investigation in 2021 started by Attorney General Andrea Campbell. In a press release, Campbell noted: “My office, and particularly our Fair Labor Division, will continue […]

February 25, 2023 0

Formerly Incarcerated Persons Need to Work: Getting Beyond Society’s Barriers

by Bolin Shen

If you receive a felony, it’s like a life sentence that hangs with you for the rest of your life, making re-employment difficult, if not impossible. This disparity is even greater for immigrants, who often face language barriers and discrimination in the job market, where the hurdles to finding work are even higher. Statistics show that criminal aliens – illegal immigrants who engage in other criminal acts – account for more than one in five federal prison inmates, even though […]

January 21, 2023 0

Canada is Solving its Labor Shortages

by Sonia Cavazos

As the world heads into 2023, the labor force will see significant changes in both the United States and Canada. The United States is currently facing a labor shortage and politicians, economists, and employers are working for a solution in different ways. In the U.S., the most recent attempt to solve the labor shortage, by providing existing immigrants a path to citizenship failed. Unable to garner enough support, another attempt will be nearly impossible since the House is now dominated […]

September 3, 2022 0

Labor Shortages and Climate Crises: Immigrants Impacted in Food Supply Industry

by Giselle Chu

Immigrants have long played a key role in the creation of the national food supply. Previously, the US faced a labor shortage in the food industry before COVID, only to have it exacerbated by the pandemic. According to a July 2022 report from the American Immigration Council, the existing labor shortage consists of two key parts: “an increase in retirements as the baby boom generation reaches retirement age, and lower labor participation rates since the pandemic.” Immigrants’ positive impact on […]

May 6, 2022 0

From Dick’s Desk at the AACA LITC
(Asian American Civic Association Low Income Taxpayer Clinic)

by Richard Soo Hoo

Dear Dick I am a journeyman finish carpenter. I spent the whole week sorting through my lumber supply invoices and pay records for my construction helper. But….I am relieved. I managed to file my income tax returns by the April 15 tax deadline this year. At the same time, I am worried that the IRS is going to audit me again. I’m being audited for last year. When I went to my mailbox, I noticed a thick letter with the […]

April 27, 2022 0

From Dick’s Desk: What’s an HSA?

by Richard Soo Hoo

Dear Dick I’ve been happily working at my current job. I’m an electrician. I love my co-workers. I look forward to coming to work every day. The employee benefits are good, particularly, the health care coverage for me and my family. Everything is fine. That is, until 5 pm last Friday. My supervisor called me into the conference room. I lost my job along with 20 other employees. The company needed to cut costs to remain profitable. Since then, […]

April 12, 2022 0

Restaurant Recovery from the Pandemic

by Moninisha Yadav

As we continue to move forward after the pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate hit a two year low of 3.6% in March of 2022. The hospitality industry was the first to be devastated by COVID 19. Restaurants are gradually recovering due to easing COVID-19 restrictions allowing for higher (in some places, even 100%) indoor capacity. However, many restaurants and small businesses are still struggling with issues like inflation when it comes to hiring employees back from when they lost millions […]

April 12, 2022 0

Concerns Linger Over China Initiative’s Fate

by Chelsea Wang

Weeks after news that the Department of Justice’s four-year-old “China Initiative” would be dissolved, some experts now warn the program that largely targeted Chinese immigrants and visiting academics could be revived as easily as it was killed–and that its influence lingers on. “The pendulum could swing back the other way on that,” Mitch Ambrose, who heads science policy newsletters and tracking resources at the American Institute of Physics, told the Sampan. “There’s clearly interest among certain Republicans in bringing back […]

March 28, 2022 0

Justice Dept. Ends China Program

by Chelsea Wang

A Trump-era Department of Justice initiative that critics say unfairly targets Chinese Americans is ending, but some say the damage has already been done. The “China Initiative” was launched in 2018 when the DOJ was run by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The program was intended to defend the United States against what officials believed to be intellectual property theft conducted by the Chinese government, but it has been criticized for unfairly targeting Chinese scientists in the U.S., and some say […]

March 14, 2022 0

IRS: File This Year to Get Access to New Tax Credits, Benefits

by Sampan Staff

Even if you were not expecting to file a tax return for the 2021 year, the Internal Revenue Service is urging you to consider filing, as it could pay off. Literally. The IRS recently issued a notice about expanded tax credits for families and other expanded credits and benefits potentially available to many eligible filers. This includes the Recovery Rebate Credit, Child Tax Credit, Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses and the Earned Income Tax Credit. The expanded benefits, […]

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