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“Some voters need more help than others because they, frankly, have been left out on purpose, or by default, of the ballot box,” says Sonja Diaz.
Read More | December 11, 2020
A day after the Nov. 3 election, the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute said Biden got 75% of the votes cast in Gwinnett County election precincts that had high concentrations of Latino residents — although county elections officials were still counting ballots from the election at that time (Also: Jackson Progress-Argus, Clayton News Daily, KESQ TV-3, and KMIZ-TV).
“We’re fully anticipating that some of the smaller schools will not make it,” said Patricia Gandara, a research professor of education at UCLA. “Some of the liberal arts schools, especially, are struggling to stay afloat. It’s a really terrible problem.”
And yet, despite Latinos’ important contributions to the coffers of the State – and by extension, the country -, “they do not receive anything in return, and they are even treated worse than dogs”, deplored Dr. David Hayes-Bautista.
“I think that Xavier Becerra represents the type of leader that we need, that has the dynamism and also the experience to get us through the pandemic. This has really been a racialized pandemic that has upended life for so many communities of color. And this is something that Xavier Becerra has been leading on,…
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