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Dr. Hayes-Bautista in The Good Men Project: “COVID Fears Keep Many Latino Kids Out of Classrooms”

Latinos are vulnerable to the highly transmissible coronavirus because they are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to work essential jobs that expose them to the public, said David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of public health and medicine at UCLA and co-author of a January study on this topic. They are more likely to lack health insurance,…

Nicholas González in CNC Education Fund: “Foro de Vivienda: The UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Provides Comment on California Housing Struggles”

Nicholas González, Policy Analyst at the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI), provided remarkable insights into California’s housing crisis during a virtual COVID-19 housing forum. The research corroborated and supplemented the testimonies of the forum participants who have experienced the brunt of this housing crisis.

Dr. Avila and Dr. Noriega in The Independent Publisher: “2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards Results”

UCLA LPPI expert Eric Avila participated in the 25th annual, 2021 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest with, The Chicano Studies Reader: Anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2019, edited by Chon A. Noriega, Eric Avila, Karen Mary Davalos, Chela Sandoval, Rafael Pérez-Torres, Charlene Villaneñor Black (UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press).

Dr. Barreto in KOLD News 13: “Do voting laws protect or restrict access? House echoes state debate”

Matt Barreto, a political science professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said his studies have shown that white voters were statistically more likely to have the ID required for voting than any other racial or ethnic group in the country.

Dr. Domínguez-Villegas in the Fern: “Fear of reprisal kept immigrants from accessing federal aid in pandemic”

“There’s a general feeling among immigrants that, regardless of who’s in office, using public benefits will get them or their family members placed at a disadvantage for regularization,” said Rodrigo Domínguez-Villegas, one of the authors of the UCLA report. While Biden’s reversal of the expanded rule is a “good step,” alleviating fears will require “federal…

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