Press Archive

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

’I don’t trust it’: These Californians hesitant to take COVID vaccine, despite surge

“There’s been a storied legacy, both at home and abroad, of the way that the U.S. government has rolled out medical and scientific experiments on non-white bodies,” said Sonja Diaz. “More must be done to ensure these communities, who are overwhelmingly on the frontlines of this pandemic, have accurate and culturally tailored information to trust…

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Mathews: Turn a notorious jail into a center for democracy

The jail symbolizes how L.A. became “the carceral capital of the world,” as UCLA scholar Kelly Lytle Hernandez has put it. Even before it was a big city, L.A. was a pioneer in caging people——the Indigenous, Chinese migrants, white vagrants, Mexican migrants, and Black people.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

$900 Billion Federal Stimulus: What’s In it, What’s Not, What Remains

Now, a report released jointly by UCLA’s Center for Neighborhood Knowledge and its Latino Policy and Initiatives, shares how the first version of the Paycheck Protection Program shortchanged Black and Latino neighborhoods on a per capita basis compared to predominantly white areas.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Governor Lujan Grisham to lead press conference on bill to permanently fund early childhood education- HJR 1

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham will join Allen Sánchez, President of CHI St. Joseph’s Children and Representatives Antonio “Moe” Maestas and Javier Martínez, bill sponsors of HJR 1 to roll out a new poll led by Dr. Gabriel Sánchez and Dr. Matt Barreto from LD Insights, LLC.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Jobs & Labor

Biden picks Isabel Guzman for Small Business Administration, fulfilling a promise to Latinos

A new report released Jan. 8 by the University of California, Los Angeles Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA Latino) laid-out the racial factors in December 2020 job losses. Latino employment tanked by 252,000 jobs, Black employment dropped by 26,000 jobs, and Asian employment did as well, by 40,000 jobs. By contrast, there was an…

Read More | January 19, 2021

Pages: 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566676869707172737475767778798081828384858687888990919293949596979899100101102103104105106107108109110111112113114115116117118119120121122123124125126127128129130131132133134135136137138139140141142143144145146147148149150151152153154155156157158159160161162163164165166167168169170171172173174175176177178179180181182183184185186187188189190191192193194195196197198199200201202203204205206207208209210211212213214215216217218219220221222223224225226227228229230231232233234235236237238239240241242243

Work

Issues

People

Newsroom

Press Archive

Work

Issues

Resource

Experts

Join us in expanding opportunity for
all Americans