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UCLA LPPI Giving Tuesday 2020

In 2020, The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute worked tirelessly to ensure Latinos and communities of color were centered on issues around the pandemic, the ensuing economic crisis, the election, and the path toward recovery. Please take a glimpse of our work in our year-in-review video.

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News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

One Seat, Competing Pressures as Newsom Considers Senate Pick

“There’s been a failure by both political parties to champion the needs of a growing electorate,” said Sonja Diaz, director of Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Choosing a Latino for one of the nation’s most powerful posts, she added, would help reverse that. (Also: USA News, Yahoo News,…

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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Latinos who speak Spanish, the most affected by COVID-19

“Through this survey we can appreciate the concerns of Spanish-speaking farm workers, truck drivers and construction workers,” said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista of the UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Torres-Gil on Biden’s Plans for Older Americans

“What I am suggesting for our generation [of baby boomers] is not only must we be advocates whether it is health security, retirement security, pension reform, protecting Social Security or protecting Medicare and Medicaid, but we must find ways to drill down and begin to represent the interests of younger, emerging, ethnic minority populations,” said…

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Democrats Reassess What They Thought They Knew About Outreach to Latinos, Starting With the Economy

And after Texas came in comfortably for Trump on Election Day, Julian Castro and Representative Joaquin Castro scheduled a call with Biden pollster Matt Barreto to begin trying to understand what happened along the heavily Hispanic border counties where Trump did well, effectively sealing off yet again the Democratic dream of a blue Texas. (Also:…

Read More | December 4, 2020

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