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News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Latinos Report Financial Strain As Pandemic Erodes Income And Savings

Nationally, the NPR poll finds that 63% of Latinos report they have lost household income either through reduced hours or wages, furloughs or job loss since the start of the pandemic. But Latinos have kept working through the crisis, says David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA.

Read More | September 28, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

UC system experiences nearly $2B loss as a result of pandemic, seeks federal aid

However, even if the HEROES Act passes, it will still not be enough to cover costs incurred by the UC, said Patricia Gandara, a research professor of education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and UCLA LPPI expert. “I imagine … it’s going to take several years to dig out of this,”…

Read More | September 28, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Biden’s weakness with Black and Latino men creates an opening for Trump

The campaign also expanded its polling of Latinos to states including Pennsylvania and North Carolina, which it said is a first for a Democratic candidate. “The Latino vote is a legitimate part of the discussion in Pennsylvania now,” said Matt Barreto, a pollster for the Biden campaign.

Read More | September 28, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Census Missing Wealthy Californians Who Quarantine at Vacation Homes

“There’s odd patterns this year,” said Natalie Masuoka, associate professor of political science at UCLA who teaches an undergraduate course on the census. “In dense, majority-white areas, they either chose to relocate from those hotbeds of COVID spread, or we also saw a lot of folks from some wealthy areas get stuck abroad.”

Read More | September 28, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Voting Rights Project

Texans advised to vote in person this November to avoid voter suppression

“Given how we’ve seen this election cycle play out so far, everybody who can vote in person should do so, in my view. There are a lot of rules on vote-by-mail, and there are a lot of ways to make a mistake doing it. Texas has some of the most difficult rules of all the…

Read More | September 28, 2020

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