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Sonja Diaz, of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute, said she is worried that the message might not be reaching Southern California’s fastest-growing populations — Asian Americans and Latinos — many of whom are first-time voters or who mostly vote during presidential elections.
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“Now, the COVID-19 crisis has widened existing disparities in academic achievement that remain along sharp racial and class lines,” said Gary Segura, dean of UCLA’s Luskin School of Public Affairs, in presenting the report. and co-author of the report.
The report, a novel-length and heavily footnoted volume called “No Going Back,” is part academic treatise and part manifesto, painting a dark picture of racial and economic inequity and recommending a sweeping overhaul of the systems that it holds responsible. The report’s conclusions rest on research by Manuel Pastor, director of the USC Equity Research Institute,…
Biden’s team dismisses most of the public polling, saying English-language polls aren’t as reliable a gauge. “Their methodology is flawed because they all under-sample Hispanics,” said Matt Barreto, who polls for Biden and founded the group, Latino Decisions. “You can’t really draw valid conclusions from them.”
A recent report by UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute is posted on the Youth Today website. The report authors include UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute Sonja Diaz, Adriana Bernal, Julie Aguilar, and Maria Morales.
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