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While non Hispanic-White people have 315 doctors for every 100,000 people, Latinx people have just 105, said Dr. David Hayes-Bautista, director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture UCLA’s School of Medicine. He added that there are just small handfuls of Latinx students enrolled or graduating from medical school.
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The Democrats’ strategy ignores important lessons from recent political history, said Sonja Diaz, who directs the University of California, Los Angeles, Latino Policy & Politics Institute. “The 2020 Democratic primary showed both political parties and all future candidates the playbook to win,” Diaz said, pointing to the campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders, which emphasized meeting…
Democrats and Republicans invested large sums in persuading white voters, while neglecting the Latinos and young voters of color who have proved critical to Democratic support in Arizona. UCLA research shows Latinos overwhelmingly supported Biden in Maricopa, Pima and Yuma counties, driving Biden toward victory there.Â
In a study of precincts with high concentrations of Latinos, the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics  Initiative found that Biden received 80% of the vote, while in 2016 Clinton got 76%. Latino  Decisions’ election eve poll found that 70% of Latinos nationwide voted for Biden while 27% voted for Trump.Â
“So, we need to take the Latino electorate state-by-state and we need to take a state as complex as Florida and break it out by different geographies and ethnicities,” said Matt Barreto. “And one of the things we found last night looking at the data is that in the Puerto Rican community in Orland, in…
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