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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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Will Arizona follow Georgia on voting restrictions‪?‬

“All of these voter suppression bills are coming at a time, and in jurisdictions, where we saw growth in the electorate, particularly amongst Latino voters,” says Sonja Diaz.

California Latinos of all age groups ‘multiple’ times more likely to die from COVID-19 than whites, UCLA study finds

“What was astounding was that in every age group, the Latino death rate was multiple times higher than white – multiple,” said David Hayes-Bautista, UCLA professor of public health and medicine and lead author of the study. The death disparities, he said, have “shown a glaring spotlight” on a long history of barriers to health care.

These ‘political orphans’ deserve help

Cecilia Menjivar of UCLA says, “It amounts to a social death in many ways” on the precarious immigration status of many TPS recipients.

These California Latinos didn’t grow up speaking Spanish. Here’s why

“The vast majority of California’s bilingual programs were gutted. That whole generation had minimal, fig-leaf bilingual education,” said Otto Santa Ana, a professor emeritus of Chicano/a studies at UCLA.

Latino Newscast: Comprehensive Immigration Reform Would Help Economic Recovery + Labor Law Protects You Against Retaliation for Immigration Status, California Commissioner Says.

LPPI’s Research Director, Rodrigo Domínguez Villegas shares the results of a recent LPPI study that provides figures on how the legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants could help the economic recovery of the country.

Read More | April 7, 2021

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