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TDP attorney Chad Dunn said in a press conference Monday, “The constitutional text is crystal clear. There’s an unbroken line of cases going back for decades saying that you cannot give different voting rights to people based on age.”
Read More | September 8, 2020
“Data validated by political scientist Matt Barreto of the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute shows there was a 12.75 percent increase in voter turnout among low propensity voters in this year’s presidential primary.”
Up until the last few decades, “you had to go out of your way to learn about your right to vote if you were a farmworker or Spanish speaker anywhere in rural California,” said Matt Barreto, a professor at UCLA and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions. “No one was affirmatively trying to incorporate you.”
One of the early stories that emerged from the nation’s first COVID-19 hotspot was on the disproportionate infection and fatality toll that low-income residents and communities of color faced given their role as essential, frontline workers.
Read More | August 31, 2020
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute (UCLA LPPI) hosted a webinar that explored how undocumented immigrants are particularly vulnerable to disasters and require special consideration in emergency planning and relief efforts.
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