JapaneseSeniors

Opinion: These Japanese American seniors may be displaced in L.A. during the pandemic. It’s unconscionable.

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https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/boyleheights An opinion piece by actors Tamlyn Tomita and Lane Nishikawa and activist Carlos Montes in the San Diego Union. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pacifica Senior Living’s plans to turn Sakura Gardens ICF into a 45-unit luxury apartment building put the lives of 200 of its most vulnerable and cherished Japanese-American community … Read more

“How Wall Street Killed Grandma”

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February 23, 2021 Julia Rock and David Sirota https://portside.org/2021-02-23/how-wall-street-killed-grandma “20,000 nursing home residents died from 2004 to 2016 because they lived in nursing homes run by private equity firms, according to updated data.“ “We find that [private equity] ownership leads to a 3 percent decline in hours per patient-day supplied by the frontline nursing assistants … Read more