âWhen Social Security was instituted, then Medicare built on top of it, the assumption was that at age 65, Latinos would get both,â David Hayes-Bautista, Ph.D., a professor of public health and medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture at the UCLA School of Medicine, told the media…
Read More | June 22, 2021
Older Latinos already face housing, health, and caregiving challenges, and concern is growing that as the âbrowning of the grayingâ of America continues, as longtime UCLA public health researcher David Hayes-Bautista has written, the economic and social impact on Hispanics and the U.S. will be significant.
Read More | June 19, 2021
Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles, said Newsom’s positive ad presents messaging that will resonate with families and young people who have been hard hit by the pandemic by highlighting the cash payments, help for businesses and an expansion of preschool.
Read More | June 17, 2021
âLocal doctors and nurses of color are very trusted messengers. And so our best path forward is by working with those local doctors and nurses who look like us, who are from our community, encouraging us to come into their doctorâs office and take notes,â Matt Barreto, a professor of Chicano/a studies at UCLA, said…
Read More | June 16, 2021
A report published today by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute examines unemployment figures for Latinas as well as changes in the number of Latinas in the U.S. labor force since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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