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Multigenerational households wait for vaccine as California releases demographics of distribution

“55% of California’s essential workforce identifies as Latino,” said founding director of UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute, Sonja Diaz. “When we think about who our workers are right now and the fact that they’re on the frontline, saving American lives, we know that they’re not over the age of 65, and they deserve access…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

How California’s Rocky Vaccine Rollout Has Left Out Latinos

LPPI Founding Director Sonja Diaz joined KQED Public Radio to discuss the challenges Latinos and other vulnerable Californians face in accessing vaccines “Los Angeles and California have had an outsized share of COVID-19 infections and mortality, and this has fallen on the shoulders of Latino households for one reason in particular: they are working to…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Central Americans

Communists, Criminals and Caravans: The Social Construction of Central Americans as Crisis

On March 12, 2021 at 12:00 PM via Zoom, Dr. Leisy J. Abrego, the author of the award-winning book Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders, will be leading a conversation that provides the political and social context for U.S.-Central American relations from the 1980s to the present to better understand how U.S….

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Health

Cal Lutheran Economists Win Bank of America Research Grant

The Bank for America Charitable Foundation has awarded California Lutheran University’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting, or CERF, a $250,000 research grant to identify the total economic contribution of Hispanics by U.S. state. CERF Executive Director Matthew Fienup and Director of Economics Dan Hamilton head the research institute’s team, which includes Dr. David Hayes-Bautista,…

Read More | February 22, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

Vaccine equity for Latinos + Church as an essential service + API caucus on hate crimes

Over 50 Latino leaders in California sent a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom urging the state to expand vaccine access to Latino communities who have been hard hit by the pandemic. The letter was signed by representatives from varying groups like the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute, the National Association of Latino Elected and…

Read More | February 22, 2021

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