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News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Trump’s Latino support was overlooked by pollsters lacking diversity

For some, this year’s polling faux pas reflects bigger deficiencies in opinion surveys of Latinos, said Matt Barreto, co-founder of Latino Decisions, an opinion-research company focused on Latinos, Hispanics and other minorities. It wasn’t just that polling of Latinos has been inaccurate; it’s that there simply wasn’t much polling at all. Barreto said he started the…

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Civil Rights

De Leon Announces District Appointment to Los Angeles Redistricting Commission

Councilman Kevin de Leon Wednesday named Sonja Francine Diaz, a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles, as the Council District 14 representative on the city’s redistricting commission. “Sonja has long been an advocate for equity in Los Angeles, using her voice to protect the civil rights of countless Angelenos,” de Leon said. “As we redraw the invisible lines…

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Diversity & Inclusion

Millions of Americans feel their status is threatened.

“Social scientists who have been studying race in America are not surprised at all. There is much work to do in bringing the nation together and pursuing a path toward unity, but that must start with a recognition of the historic institutional racism, and an acknowledgement that so many millions of white Americans proudly agreed…

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Op-Ed: Look to the local to understand the ‘complex’ Latino vote

These groups were worried about the effects of COVID-19, economic inequality and the treatment of immigrants — pressing local issues. Yet their efforts had national ripple effects. UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute called the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also: Yahoo News.)

Read More | November 20, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Falling Through the COVID19 Cracks

Without any protection, COVID19 finds gaps in care in the social services umbrella and the healthcare maze that marginalized communities have to navigate, and “the coronavirus falls upon them like rain,” says David Hayes-Bautista.

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