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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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Gascón Challenges Whiteness of Board

Historian, author, and McArthur Genius grantee Kelly Lytle Hernandez unmasks the history of racialized policing in Los Angeles in her award-winning book, “City of Inmates” and the project she leads at UCLA, “Million Dollar Hoods“.

Want to jumpstart economic recovery? Fuse COVID-19 relief and immigration reform

Large numbers of these essential workers are also undocumented immigrants. Over 78 percent of immigrants without legal status work in these fields, according to a report by UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute.

Democrats Need to Reach Out to Hispanic Voters Early, Researcher Says

“We don’t want that funding to come in the last month before the election,” said Matt Barreto. “One of the lessons was that wasn’t useful. We need that funding to come in much earlier to build up local structures, to build up party committees. “Those need to be Latino-led. If you want to earn the…

Sonja Diaz in San Francisco Chronicle: “Time is Gavin Newsom’s friend when it comes to the recall”

Read Publication “If we preserve our workforce, California’s businesses will have the labor to recover, and that’s important for the world’s fifth-largest economy,” said Sonja Diaz, one of 70 Latino leaders who wrote a letter to Newsom asking for a more equitable distribution policy. “The better California does in saving lives and opening schools, the higher the public…

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute Statement From Latino Leaders On Prioritizing Hardest-Hit Communities For Vaccine Access

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and a group of Latino leaders from across California issued the following statements in response to the state’s updated vaccine equity metric to target 40 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the hardest-hit communities in the lowest quartile of the Heathy Places Index.

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