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Silvia González in The New York Times: “It’s Been a Home for Decades, but Legal Only a Few Months”

“Renters have to make a choice: Are you going to live in a place that costs more? Or do you put yourself in a situation where you’re likely to have overcrowding and you might have restrictions over things like having guests over?” said Silvia González, director of research at the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA.

Matt Barreto in Los Angeles Times: ”Economy, COVID drove Latino voters toward Trump in 2020″

On the eve of the 2016 election, immigration and “voting to support the Latino community” were the top two issues cited by Latino voters in explaining how they intended to vote, according to surveys by UCLA political science professor Matt Barreto and Gabriel Sanchez, his partner at BSP Research.

UCLA LATINO POLICY AND POLITICS INSTITUTE RECEIVES FUNDING FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENDOWMENT TO INCREASE VISIBILITY OF LATINOS IN POLICYMAKING

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) announced $200,000 in funding over one year from The California Endowment (TCE) on Friday, December 17, 2021. The grant will support education and awareness-building efforts around key social issues and their impact on Latinos and other communities of color to promote more equitable, data-driven policymaking.

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (LPPI) in Los Angeles Times: “Latinx Files: How a famous pianist picked a fight with reggaeton”

On Wednesday the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute published a report that found that just 4% of op-eds published by the Los Angeles Times between January 2020 and May 2021 were written by Latinx authors. They also found that 95% of Times op-eds published during that period “made no explicit mention of Latinos or Latino communities.” Yikes.

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas in UCLA Newsroom: “Latinos are severely underrepresented in Los Angeles Times opinion pages”

Over a 17-month span that included a presidential election in which the Latino vote was critical and a burgeoning COVID-19 crisis that devastated the Latino community, just 4% of op-eds published by the Los Angeles Times featured Latino authors, according to a new report from the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

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