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Vaccine Disparity: How Minorities Are Disproportionately Hit

LPPI Executive Director Sonja Diaz featured on CNN, discussing how age-prioritized vaccine distribution has left behind the Latino community in California, ultimately putting our nation’s essential workers most at risk. “Latinos in the US, their median age is 30. For white Americans, it’s 58. So when you privilege older people in California, that ostensibly is going…

Why is Gavin Newsom changing California’s COVID-19 reopening tiers again?

Ensuring Latinos get more vaccines is a step in the right direction, said Sonja Diaz, director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute. “Communities of color are keeping the economy afloat, and prioritizing them is not only the right thing to do, but an economic imperative,” Diaz said in a written statement. “The state’s…

Read More | March 10, 2021

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California upends how it’s divvying up scarce vaccines

“The state’s new approach is the right step to stop the bleeding and affirm that Californians of color are not collateral damage but the catalysts to recovery. California has a responsibility to those communities to get them help first and fast,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (Also:…

Read More | March 10, 2021

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Study shows federal PPP, small business loans failed to reach California’s vulnerable communities

“The pandemic devastated communities of color and they’ve really borne the brunt of the pandemic, not just in terms of infection and mortality, but job loss and economic devaluation,” said Sonja Diaz, founding director of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Read More | March 10, 2021

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Coronavirus Today: Homelessness, hotels and public health

Larger businesses that had existing relationships with big banks were better equipped to get the loans than smaller Latino businesses with fewer ties and less knowledge about how to apply for assistance, said Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, director of research for the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Read More | March 10, 2021

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