Qingfang Wang: The Inequities of Latina-Owned Businesses

In this episode, Professor of Public Policy Qingfang Wang talks with a student from the UC Riverside School of Public Policy about the unique challenges Latina-Owned businesses face.About Qingfang Wang:Qingfang Wang's research area lies broadly in immigration, labor market, and development. With a Ph.D. in geography, Wang is particularly interested in how place–as both worksite and residential location–interacts with race, immigration status, and gender in shaping labor market experiences and social-economic wellbeing. Her work has been funded by the Kauffman Foundation, National Science Foundation, HUD, and other agencies. Her recent work includes research on immigrant, ethnic and female entrepreneurship, and transnational migration of the highly skilled, especially in the higher education sector.Learn more about Qingfang Wang via: https://profiles.ucr.edu/app/home/profile/qingfangPodcast Highlights:“A large number of Latina-Owned Businesses...are in the low wage, low skill, and easy to enter industries which haven't adopted technology that much before COVID.”-       Qingfang Wang on the role the technological divide plays in driving the inequalities that hinder the growth of Latina-Owned Businesses. “Many of these short-term impacts are imbued upon the long-term issues...under COVID-19, it's just revealed.”-       Qingfang Wang on the idea that the core issues minority-owned businesses face were embedded long before COVID-19. “It is fundamental for [the government] to keep people informed by providing accurate, timely, and consistent information and evidence...under COVID-19 we see [people] live with uncertainty...”-       Qingfang Wang on the role the government plays in supporting Latina-Owned Businesses. Guest:Qingfang Wang (Professor of Public Policy)Interviewer:Kevin Karami (UCR Public Policy Major, Dean’s Chief Ambassador)Music by:C Codainehttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/Minimal_1625https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Xylo-Ziko/PhaseUpbeat Emotive by Fretboundhttps://www.fretbound.com/Video Link: https://youtu.be/F_8EMeRnd40Commercial Links:https://spp.ucr.edu/ba-mpphttps://spp.ucr.edu/mppThis is a production of the UCR School of Public Policy: https://spp.ucr.edu/Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the interviewers and guests alone and do not reflect the official positions of the UC Riverside School of Public Policy or the University of California, Riverside.Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss an episode. Learn more about the series and other episodes via https://spp.ucr.edu/podcast.