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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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Latino leaders demand COVID-19 vaccine access be equitable especially in vulnerable communities

UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute, along with a group of nearly 70 Latino leaders, sent a letter to Governor Gavin Newsom, imploring the implementation of measures, since the Latino population is at a disadvantage when it comes to receiving the vaccine.

Even with Biden stimulus, US minority entrepreneurs fear for survival

Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegas, a co-author of the study, said minority-owned businesses tended not to have relationships with banks or lacked experience with such massive government programs, meaning by the time they applied for the PPP, the funds were depleted. “All those things combined meant that minority-owned businesses had less access to the loans, and it ended…

Iconic Mexican Music Stars Back Immigration Reform

A poll by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute reports that a record number of 16.7 million Latinos voted in 2020, increasing almost by one-third compared to the 2016 election.

How do you map the cost of mass incarceration in LA?

“We calculate how much is being spent to incarcerate residents of Los Angeles in a local jail system by neighborhood, and every neighborhood where we’re spending more than $1 million per year locking up residents,” says Kelly Lytle Hernández. “That’s a million dollar hood.”

Opinion: Latinos deserve — and expect — equal representation in the Biden administration

According to a recent UCLA study, some 16.6 million Hispanic voters made their voices heard — a 30.9 percent increase since 2016, the largest four-year increase in Latino voting ever and nearly double the national voter increase of 15.9 percent.

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