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$900 Billion Federal Stimulus: What’s In it, What’s Not, What Remains

Now, a report released jointly by UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge and its Latino Policy and Initiatives, shares how the first version of the Paycheck Protection Program shortchanged Black and Latino neighborhoods on a per capita basis compared to predominantly white areas.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Governor Lujan Grisham to lead press conference on bill to permanently fund early childhood education- HJR 1

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will join Allen Sánchez, President of CHI St. Joseph’s Children and Representatives Antonio “Moe” Maestas and Javier Martínez, bill sponsors of HJR 1 to roll out a new poll led by Dr. Gabriel Sánchez and Dr. Matt Barreto from LD Insights, LLC.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

Biden picks Isabel Guzman for Small Business Administration, fulfilling a promise to Latinos

A new report released Jan. 8 by the University of California, Los Angeles Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA Latino) laid-out the racial factors in December 2020 job losses. Latino employment tanked by 252,000 jobs, Black employment dropped by 26,000 jobs, and Asian employment did as well, by 40,000 jobs. By contrast, there was an…

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

Americans are living 30 years longer on average — and that’s a big plus for businesses

David Hayes-Bautista, who’s spent 40 years studying the health and culture of Latinos in the United States, said the group can be considered a model for longer, engaged lives. Latinos in the U.S. enjoy nearly 3 1/2 years of longer life expectancy — 81.8 years — than non-Hispanic whites, at 78.5 years, he said. “That’s…

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

The New Brown Belt, What Really Happened with Latino Voters in 2020

“It is an example of the worst possible poll that has somehow become believed as ‘official’ or ‘fact’ by folks in the media,” UCLA political scientist Matt Barreto says. “Within political science, it will be hard to find a single Ph.D. who believes anything in the [Edison] exit poll as representative.”

Read More | January 19, 2021

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