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Filipinx Count! The Filipinx/Filipinx-American Health and Well-Being Survey is conducted by Fil-Am researchers of the Carlos Bulosan Center for Filipino Studies at the University of California in Davis. The survey, which was participated in by about...

Among the hardest-hit sectors in Ontario during the COVID-19 pandemic are long-term care homes, with over 1,800 resident deaths and 7 staff deaths — including a Filipino personal support worker, or PSW. SEIU union president, Sharleen...

ATLANTA — Nine overseas Filipino workers have been stuck in Atlanta since May 2, when they left the Cayman Islands for the Philippines due to a lack of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “In the...

HOT SPRINGS, VA — “It all started with a sudden termination of all J1s, majority of us J1s, so it was done informally, instead of receiving termination letters we were only informed verbally through a phone...

While workers all over the world celebrated labor day at the start of May, up to half a million undocumented workers in Canada — live in fear of being deported because they have lost their status....

by Paul Garilao, ABS-CBN News FLORIDA — Across the U.S., Filipino J-1 visa holders have not been spared from economic hardships due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While their visas have not yet expired and their contracts...

ALBERTA, CA — A meat processing plant was greatly affected by a recent COVID-19 outbreak, where over 800 workers were infected with the virus in a span of weeks. The company employs thousands of temporary foreign...

VANCOUVER — Nadine Abenas has been working at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Vancouver for 12 years now. But because of the coronavirus crisis, she suddenly found herself without a job. “The majority of us got...

Their jobs aren’t highlighted often — but they’re still considered frontliners in the battle to stop the spread of COVID-19. Stanley Maranion has been a janitor for one of the biggest malls in Metro Vancouver since...

SAN FRANCISCO — Consul General Henry Bensurto Jr. of the Philippine consulate in San Francisco said they’ve been working round the clock to check on the condition of Filipinos on board the Grand Princess, which docked in...