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UCLA Voting Rights Project Statement on the President’s Comments on Vote By Mail Fraud

Statement from Matt Barreto, founder of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, an advocacy research arm of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute in response to voter fraud.

Immigrant Rights, Social Justice and Post-Pandemic Planning

Sonja Diaz, a lawyer and scholar, talks about immigrants, who are disproportionately represented among essential workers but have received little in the way of COVID-19 aid. The pandemic has left them in limbo.

COVID-19 Death Rates Highest For Latino Californians, Latest Data Show

Report co-author and UCLA professor David Hayes-Bautista said the trend is directly linked to the fact that Latino workers comprise much of the high-risk agricultural sector. “Farmworkers work in large gangs, they often times sleep in barracks, they ride out in busses,” he said. “The packing house workers … they work shoulder to shoulder.”

COVID-19 Is Disproportionately Killing Latino Californians, Latest Data Shows

Co-author David Hayes-Bautista says the disparity is driven by Latino farm workers who weren’t protected early in the pandemic.

IdeateLABs Announces New UCLA Study Results on Teledentistry and the Impacts on Latinos

“Lack of Latino dentists, lack of insurance, high costs makes dentistry inaccessible to Latino Communities. Teledentisty may provide access and affordable options for underserved communities,” Dr. David Hayes-Bautista said.

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