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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.

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

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