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News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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.

Read More | February 16, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

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.”

Read More | February 16, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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.

Read More | February 16, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

LPPI in Univision: “Organizaciones latinas piden a Newsom corregir la distribución “desigual” de vacunas contra el coronavirus”

Latino Policy & Politics Institute, de la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles, pide a Newsom que de prioridad a la “pluralidad del estado” a la hora de distribuir las vacunas contra el coronavirus para “corregir inmediatamente el despliegue desigual que está dejando atrás a demasiadas comunidades que están en las trincheras”

Read More | February 16, 2021

Letters and Memorandums → Health

Additional Signatories: Letter to Governor Newsom: COVID-19 Vaccination is Leaving Latino Californians Behind

Latino leaders from California provide evidence that Latinos are being left behind from access to COVID-19 vaccinations and ask for the implementation of distribution policies that reach Latino communities.

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