Jireh Deng
Economy Fellow at Business Insider
626 Angeleno 〰️ now economy @businessinsider 〰️ formerly @latimes @inthesetimesmag @npr 〰️ words in @teenvogue @theguardian etc. 〰️ tips to [email protected]
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1 week ago |
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Jireh Deng |Henry Blodget
The normally bustling streets of Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles were quiet except for the commotion of sirens and gusty helicopters. Loud bangs punctuated the night, but LA's street vendors were still slinging tacos and crêpes to the few pedestrians who had ventured out. It was the evening of Monday, June 9, the week that the LA Times reported that Immigration and Customs Enforcement detained several hundred immigrants in Southern California.
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2 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Bartie Scott |Jireh Deng |Henry Blodget
When Raegan Kline and Alfredo Linares married last summer, their dream felt straightforward and simple: start a Japanese barbecue pop-up restaurant in Los Angeles and live happily ever after. But all of that changed in the fall when President Donald Trump, who had promised mass deportations on the campaign trail, won reelection.
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3 weeks ago |
latimes.com | Jireh Deng
Leola Davis runs Pansy Esthetics, one of the few skincare providers in L.A. that caters to transgender people and nonbinary people post-operation. The lack of inclusive care sparked Davis’ desire to expand access to facials and other skincare services for people of color and trans people. In a time when trans rights are under attack, Davis sees her work as an important part of community care.
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4 weeks ago |
businessinsider.com | Emily Canal |Jireh Deng |Henry Blodget
Last year Alex Mixson and his wife Marley Britt were having a string of medical crises. She was unable to work because of an undiagnosed illness, and he had to have an appendectomy. "We couldn't afford Columbus anymore," Mixson said of the Ohio city where they lived. Multiple emergency medical visits drained their savings and racked up thousands of dollars in debt.
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1 month ago |
businessinsider.com | Emily Canal |Jireh Deng |Henry Blodget
Younger women and women of color are starting more small businesses than men. Women-owned startups made up 49% of all new businesses in 2024, up from 29% in 2019 and the highest share recorded in the past six years, per a new report from Gusto. The HR and payroll platform surveyed its users and also found that AAPI, Black, and young women were driving this trend.
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