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SEPTEMBER 1-7, 2022 Volume 33 - No. 35 • 14 Pages
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Marcos: Be heroes in our own right, USA Biden announces inspire future generations of Filipinos plan to forgive DATELINE
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student loan debt Fil-Ams react to the landmark effort that will affect 43 million borrowers
MANILA — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Monday, August 29 paid tribute to Filipinos of “extraordinary courage” who fought to establish and protect the Philippines as the country celebrates National
Heroes’ Day. “We remember and honor each of them for the sacrifices they made in our behalf so that we may live in peace, security, and liberty as well as realize our full potential as Filipinos,” Marcos
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CLOSE to 15% of job openings that employ immigrant or foreign-born workers in the U.S. are still vacant, while the legal immigration system is in dire straits. From meat packing to home building to STEM professionals to nurses, the post-pandemic economy is reeling from a labor force decimated by restrictive immigration policies, which worsened under Donald Trump’s administration. The halting of immigration “From the middle of 2019 until the end of 2021, there has been essentially zero net immigration to the U.S,” said Giovanni Peri, Ph.D. Professor of Economics and Founder and Director of the UC Davis Global Migration Center, citing US Bureau census data. “Although in late 2021 and early 2022 these numbers started growing again, the fact that the inflow of immigrants stopped made the country lose more than 1.7 million (immigrants),” added Peri, noting that 900,000 of them would have been college educated who work in the STEM sector – doctors, computer scientists, biomedical engineers, bio experts — and 800,000 would have been non-college educated concentrated in sectors such as food,
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Senator Cortez Masto, AAPI community leaders discuss impact of Inflation Reduction Act on Nevadans
IN 2015, when she graduated from USC with a degree in criminology, Filipina American Stephanie Rivera was tasked with her first mystery to solve: how she was going to pay off her student loans. Rivera, who now works as a forensic psychologist in San Diego, recalled that getting accepted to USC as the first person in her immediate family to attend college was a huge triumph. But the celebration over her acceptance at USC was short-lived when her family had to figure out how to fund her education as they, like so many other families who
Loss of 1.7 million immigrants fuels United States labor shortage and inflation
said in his first National Heroes Day message as the chief executive. He urged the public to not forget them as “their legacy of heroism lives on in the hearts of
‘PEACE BELL’. (From left ) Office of the Special Assistant to the President Undersecretary Joahna Paula Domingo; Quezon City Mayor Josefina “Joy’’ Belmonte; Presidential Adviser on Peace, Reconciliation and Unity Secretary Carlito Galvez Jr.; and Abang-Lingkod party-list Rep. Joseph Stephen Paduano lead the ringing of the “Peace Bell’’ at the Quezon Memorial Circle on Thursday, Sept. 1. The theme for this year’s Peace Month celebration, “Pagkaisasa at Paghilom: Isang Bansa Para sa Kapayapaan (Unity and Healing: One Nation for Peace),” aims to remind Filipinos that through unity and cooperation, the nation can attain genuine and long-lasting peace. PNA photo by Ben Briones
LAS VEGAS – U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) hosted a roundtable on Wednesday, August 31 with Asian American and Pacific Islander community leaders in Las Vegas to discuss how the Inflation Reduction Act will lower health care costs, create good-paying clean energy jobs, and combat climate change. Senator Cortez Masto and participants discussed the cost-cutting provisions in the legislation, including the extended tax credits for families who receive health insurance through the Affordable Care Act and the robust investments in Nevada’s clean energy economy. “This legislation is going to benefit Asian American and Pacific Islander communities across Nevada by cutting costs and investing in our economy,” said Senator Cortez Masto. “Thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act, Nevada seniors and families will see lower health care costs, as well as new, good-paying jobs in our booming clean-energy industry.” “We at the Asian Community Development Council
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PH has addressed hate crimes in US, assures envoy up for appointment by BERNADETTE
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PHILIPPINE Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez said the Philippines had sent a diplomatic note to the US State Department at the height of the Asian hate crime in 2021. This was Romualdez's reply to the query of Sen. Ana Theresia "Risa" Hontiveros on what the Philippine government had done to address these cases involving Filipinos living in the US. The query comes as another Filipino elderly was attacked in New York City over the weekend in what U.S. authorities branded as a hate crime against Asians. The ambassador on Wednesday, August PAGE 4
31 virtually attended the Commission on Appointments' (CA) deliberation on his ad interim appointment as the Philippines' top envoy to the U.S. "We have sent a diplomatic note to the State Department especially at the height of all this last year," Romualdez said. "In fairness to the [U.S. President Joe] Biden administration, they reacted immediately and they were able to pass a bill making federal law regarding hate crimes," he stressed. Romualdez also said that President Fer- Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle dinand Marcos Jr. has instructed envoys "to increase economic ties" with countries like the U.S. because "he believes that the economy of the world is at stake especially after
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ABS-CBN, TV5 Network terminate deal by TYRONE JASPER Inquirer.net
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ABS-CBN Corp. and TV5 Network Inc. announced Thursday, September 1 they “mutually agreed to terminate” their investment agreement after initially deferring the deal to respond to concerns flagged by the National Telecommunications Commission and legislators. This was disclosed to both MediaQuest and ABS-CBN jointly announced a landmark deal to invest in TV5 – a transaction the Securities and Exchange expected to be completed on August 2022. Photo shows (from left) Smart and PLDT president Commission and Philippine and CEO Alfredo Panlilio, MediaQuest Holdings president and CEO Jane Basas, MediaQuest Stock Exchange. Holdings chairman Manuel V. Pangilinan, ABS-CBN chairman Mark Lopez, ABS-CBN president ABS-CBN was supposed to and CEO Carlo Katigbak and ABS-CBN chief partnership officer Bobby Barreiro. Philstar.com photo acquire 6.46 million new primary
common shares in TV5 for P2.16 billion. This represents 34.99 percent of the total voting and outstanding capital stock of TV5. “The parties confirmed that they have not implemented any of the transactions covered by the Investment Agreement and the Convertible Note Agreement,” they added. In a separate disclosures, Sky Vision , ABS-CBN, Lopez Inc. and Cignal Cable Corp. announced they had also mutually agreed to terminate the sale and purchase agreement dated Aug. 10 covering the proposed acquisition by Cignal of a 38.88-percent equity in Sky Cabe Corp.
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Tagle named pope’s special envoy in Asian bishops’ meet by EVELYN
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MANILA — Pope Francis has designated Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle as his special envoy to the 50th general conference of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference (FABC) slated on Oct. 30. According to CBCPNews, Tagle will preside over the closing mass of the FABC conference to be held at the Assumption Cathedral in Bangkok, Thailand. The 65-year-old cardinal is currently pro-prefect for the Dicastery for Evangelization According to the Vatican bulletin, the Asian bishops’ meeting begins on Oct. 12 and will be held at the Baan Phu
Waan Pastoral Center of the Archdiocese of Bangkok. This year’s conference theme is “FABC 50: Journeying together as peoples of Asia … and they went a different way.” (Matthew 2:12). The assembly also marks the belated 50th anniversary celebration of FABC, established in 1970 with the approval of the Holy See. The FABC Secretariat said the 19-day conference will “reflect on the re-emerging and emerging realities and challenges of the Church in Asia.” Prior to being appointed to the Vatican dicastery, Tagle headed the FABC’s Office of Theological Concerns for several years while he was still archbishop of Manila.