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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…

Americans are living 30 years longer on average — and that’s a big plus for businesses

David Hayes-Bautista, who’s spent 40 years studying the health and culture of Latinos in the United States, said the group can be considered a model for longer, engaged lives. Latinos in the U.S. enjoy nearly 3 1/2 years of longer life expectancy — 81.8 years — than non-Hispanic whites, at 78.5 years, he said. “That’s…

The New Brown Belt, What Really Happened with Latino Voters in 2020

“It is an example of the worst possible poll that has somehow become believed as ‘official’ or ‘fact’ by folks in the media,” UCLA political scientist Matt Barreto says. “Within political science, it will be hard to find a single Ph.D. who believes anything in the [Edison] exit poll as representative.”

Connecting California: Turn a notorious California 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.

UCLA to host ‘Science, Facts and the Public Debate’ webinar, Jan. 14

As the nation prepares for a new presidential administration, UCLA Chancellor Gene Block will convene a discussion on the role higher education can play in addressing the pressing crises of our time. LPPI expert Chon Noriega will bring an array of expertise to the discussion on how universities can help champion science and facts in…

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