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For some, this yearโs polling faux pas reflects bigger deficiencies in opinion surveys of Latinos, saidย Matt Barreto, co-founder of Latino Decisions, an opinion-research company focused on Latinos, Hispanics and other minorities. It wasnโt just that polling of Latinos has been inaccurate; itโs that there simply wasnโt much polling at all. Barreto said he started the…
Read More | November 20, 2020
Councilmanย Kevin de Leonย Wednesday namedย Sonja Francine Diaz, a civil rights attorney in Los Angeles, as the Council District 14 representative on the cityโs redistricting commission. โSonja has long been an advocate for equity in Los Angeles, using her voice to protect the civil rights of countless Angelenos,โ de Leon said. โAs we redraw the invisible lines…
โSocial scientists who have been studying race in America are not surprised at all. There is much work to do in bringing the nation together and pursuing a path toward unity, but that must start with a recognition of the historic institutional racism, and an acknowledgement that so many millions of white Americans proudly agreed…
These groups were worried about the effects of COVID-19, economic inequality and the treatment of immigrants โ pressing local issues. Yet their efforts had national ripple effects. UCLAโs Latino Policy and Politics Instituteย calledย the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also:ย Yahoo News.)
Without any protection, COVID19 finds gaps in care in the social services umbrella and the healthcare maze that marginalized communities have to navigate, and โthe coronavirus fallsย upon them like rain,โ says David Hayes-Bautista.
Read More | November 13, 2020
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