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Coronavirus in California: State Could Take ‘Drastic Action’

“The election of Biden and Harris ushers in a new era,” said Sonja Diaz, “but it doesn’t negate that the home state of Vice President-elect Harris has never sent a Latino to the Senate.”

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UCLA LPPI Giving Tuesday 2020

In 2020, The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute worked tirelessly to ensure Latinos and communities of color were centered on issues around the pandemic, the ensuing economic crisis, the election, and the path toward recovery. Please take a glimpse of our work in our year-in-review video.

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One Seat, Competing Pressures as Newsom Considers Senate Pick

“There’s been a failure by both political parties to champion the needs of a growing electorate,” said Sonja Diaz, director of Latino Policy and Politics Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. Choosing a Latino for one of the nation’s most powerful posts, she added, would help reverse that. (Also: USA News, Yahoo News,…

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Latinos who speak Spanish, the most affected by COVID-19

“Through this survey we can appreciate the concerns of Spanish-speaking farm workers, truck drivers and construction workers,” said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista of the UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health.

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Torres-Gil on Biden’s Plans for Older Americans

“What I am suggesting for our generation [of baby boomers] is not only must we be advocates whether it is health security, retirement security, pension reform, protecting Social Security or protecting Medicare and Medicaid, but we must find ways to drill down and begin to represent the interests of younger, emerging, ethnic minority populations,” said…

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