The COVID-19 pandemic has deepened California’s chronic economic and housing inequalities for low-income and people-of-color households. This brief uses data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) and California’s Emergency Rental Assistance Program (ERAP) to analyze the experience of renters and their participation in critical emergency rental-assistance programs. We find significant disparities linked to income class and race/ethnicity among California renters who are experiencing financial distress and who have participated in rental relief programs.

In this factsheet, we analyze the racial disparities on the impact of COVID-19 on post-secondary education plans in 2021, and the effect of vaccine availability on these plans.

South Florida has a population of over 4.7 million, the majority of the region being Hispanic or Latino residents. This report examines voting patterns by Latino ethnicity in South Florida using official precinct election data.

In 2021, the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative (UCLA LPPI) was focused on laying the foundation for a more inclusive economy and democracy. With the intersecting crises of structural racism, COVID-19, worsening economic inequality and climate disasters, the world is at a tipping point. And all eyes are on America to counteract a global descent into authoritarianism. In looking toward a brighter future, we must retire failed systems and build new institutions that yield shared prosperity so that all Americans not only survive but thrive.

This study analyzes Latino visibility on The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board and its widely read opinion section and finds that Latinos are severely underrepresented in both.

This report quantifies the 2020 loss in labor for Latinas relative to other groups and highlights pre-existing disparities exacerbated by COVID-19.