NAM original coverage and ethnic media articles on ethnic elders and policy in America. For more information on NAM's ethnic elder coverage, contact Paul Kleyman at pkleyman@newamericamedia.org.
 

Financial Planner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions from Elderly

Rafu Shimpo, News Report, Posted: Oct 03, 2011

Financial Planner Pleads Guilty to Stealing Millions from Elderly

 

Somali Elder Helps Seattle Refugees Be Buried Affordably with Dignity

 

Runta/New America Media, Profile, Mohamud Yussuf , Posted: Oct 02, 2011

After leaving his job eight years ago, Omar Abatiyow Mohamed, now 84, began helping other Somalis in Seattle gain the dignity of a proper and affordable burial.

 

Gutting Social Security Would Devastate Blacks and Hispanics

 

New America Media, Op-ed, Earl Ofari Hutchinson, Posted: Sep 22, 2011

Privatization of social security could devastate the millions who rely solely on it to survive.

 

Obama Medicare-Medicaid Cuts Would Pinch Rich, But Harm Other Americans

 

New America Media, News Analysis, Paul Kleyman, Posted: Sep 21, 2011

Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the President’s budget plan aims to spread the “pain” fairly, but does pinching the rich equal less accessible care for the rest of us?

 

Older Hispanics Unable to Recover from Recession

 

Equal Voice, News Feature, Susannah Nesmith , Posted: Sep 16, 2011

The recovery has been more like quicksand for Older Hispanics, whose homes are financially “under water” and jobs are more scarce than for younger workers.

Navajo Nation Allottee Decries Challenges to Cobell vs Salazar

 

Navajo Times, News Report, Posted: Sep 12, 2011

Four people or entities have announced they will appeal the long-awaited $3.4 billion settlement of Cobell v. Salazar, prompting head-shaking from a group representing Navajo allottees. "I don't understand why these people didn't opt out of the case when they had the chance," said Ervin Chavez, president of Shi Shi Keyah, speaking of the appellants.

 

A Homeless Shelter Reacts to Obama's Jobs Speech

 

New America Media, News Report, Donny Lumpkins, Posted: Sep 09, 2011

Residents of a homeless shelter in California watched Obama's jobs speech & wondered what it meant for them & the millions of other unemployed Americans.

 

Ten Years After 9/11: Korean Families Still Hurting

 

New America Media, News Report, Aruna Lee, Posted: Sep 05, 2011

"Ten years is an epoch, but our hearts remain as black as charcoal," said the mother of Jun-koo Kang, who died at the World Trade Center on 9/11.

 

Social Media Widens the World—Even at 101

 

The Atlantic, News Feature, Aylin Zafar, Posted: Sep 03, 2011

Assisted and independent living residents struggling with loneliness are learning how to use -email, Facebook and Twitter to reconnect with old friends

 

Son Pleads for Terminal Mom's Release from CA Prison

 

San Francisco Bayview, News Report, Alfey Ramdhan, Posted: Sep 02, 2011

My mother, who was incarcerated in 1991, is diagnosed with fourth stage terminal cancer. She is severely incapacitated.

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