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WHIAAPI - Background

 

Executive Order 13872 President Donald Trump signs Executive Order 13872 to help broaden access to economic resources for the AAPI community on May 13, 2019.

 

Executive Order 13872

The Asian American or Pacific Islander (AAPI) population is the most rapidly growing ethnic group in the country and is expected to increase to over 40 million individuals by 2060.  AAPIs have helped build a strong and vibrant America.  Generations of AAPI individuals, families, and communities are composed of diverse and varied ethnicities, languages, and cultures, and include residents of United States Pacific Island territories and freely associated states.  They play an important economic role, having started businesses and generated jobs that pay billions of dollars in wages and taxes, including founding some of our Nation’s most successful and innovative enterprises.  Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have made important contributions to science and technology, culture and the arts, and the professions, such as business, law, medicine, education, politics, and economics.  Their shared accomplishments and legacies are inspirational, significant, and celebrated part of the American experience.

While we celebrate the many contributions of the AAPI communities to our Nation, we also recognize that AAPI communities and enterprises encounter challenges accessing economic resources and opportunities.  Many of the more than 1.9 million AAPI-owned enterprises are small sole-proprietorships that need assistance to access available resources such as business development counseling, small-business loans, and government procurement opportunities.  Today’s AAPI workforce is the largest it has been in American history, and we will continue striving toward furthering AAPI advancement in employment and workforce development as well as increasing AAPI participation and representation in the upper levels of leadership in the public and private sectors.

 

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Published on: 03/08/2020